Understanding feminism / Peta Bowden & Jane Mummery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Peta, 1946-

Contributor:

Mummery, Jane, 1970-

Series:

Understanding movements in modern thought.

Understanding movements in modern thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stocksfield : Acumen, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Oppression

Embodiment

Sexuality and desire

Differences among and within women

Agency

Responsibility.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-191) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-49231-5

1-317-49232-3

1-315-71156-7

1-283-45679-6

9786613456793

1-84465-445-1

9781315711560

OCLC:

898104126