ISBN:
9781844651948
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (208 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Feminism
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Feminism
;
Feminism
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
""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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
