The future of feminism / Sylvia Walby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walby, Sylvia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Physical Description:

210 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.

Summary:

"Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era. Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over. Feminism is a success, although many gender inequalities remain. Feminism is taking powerful new forms, which makes it unrecognisable to some. In The Future of Feminism, Sylvia Walby offers a provocative riposte to the notion that feminism is dead. Substantiating her arguments with evidence of the vibrancy of contemporary feminism in civil society and beyond, she provides a succinct yet comprehensive critical review of recent treatments of feminism explaining why they have got it wrong. The book provides the definitive account of feminism's new and varied projects, goals, alliances and organizational forms, including feminism as a global wave. It offers engaged accounts of feminist activities across a range of domains in the economy, polity, violence and civil society. Successful feminist projects are not always named as feminist, sometimes being mainstreamed into coalitions with social democratic and global human rights activists. Feminism is now global, though also taking local forms, and these new coalitions are the basis for the future of feminism. On the future of feminism depends not only the future of gender inequality but the future of social inequality more generally." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

Contesting feminism

What does feminism do?

New forms of feminist organisation

Gender mainstreaming

Changes in the context for feminism

Feminist intersections

Alternative futures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-197) and index.

ISBN:

0745647561

9780745647562

9780745647579

074564757X

OCLC:

682095540