"This accessible, comprehensive guide highlights the diverse and evolving nature of feminism. Giving clear and reliable introductions to the ideas of many important feminists, the authors provide an invaluable map of key debates over equality and difference, the body and sexuality, and the impact on feminism of differences between women." - Alison Stone, Lancaster University"

"Understanding Feminism" provides an accessible guide to one of the most important and contested movements in progressive modern thought. Presenting feminism as a dynamic, multi-faceted and adaptive movement that has evolved in response to the changing practical and theoretical problems faced by women, the authors take a problem-oriented approach that maps the complex strands of feminist thinking in relation to women's struggles for equal recognition and rights, and freedom from oppressive constraints of sex, self-expression and autonomy. Each chapter focuses on a different cluster of concerns, demonstrating key moves in second-wave feminist thought, as well as some of the diversity in response-strategies that encompass both socio-economic and cultural-symbolic concerns. This approach not only shows how central feminist insights, theories and strategies emerge and re-emerge across different contexts, but makes clear that far from being 'over', feminism remains a vital response to the diverse issues that women (and men) find pressing and socially important.
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A guide to feminism, one of the most important and contested movements in progressive modern thought. It shows how this multi-faceted and adaptive movement has evolved in response to the changing practical and theoretical problems faced by women. It demonstrates key moves in second-wave feminist thought.
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Introduction 1. Oppression 2. Embodiment 3. Sexuality and Desire 4. Differences Among and Within Women 5. Agency 6. Responsibility Questions for Discussion and Revision Further Reading References Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844651955
Publisert
2009-05-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Acumen Publishing Ltd
Vekt
272 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Biographical note

Peta Bowden is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia. Jane Mummery is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Ballarat, Australia.