Format:
Online-Ressource (208 p)
ISBN:
9781844651948
Content:
""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 concer
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317492320
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781844651948
Additional Edition:
Print version Understanding Feminism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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