Understanding Feminism

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ID19934718
AuthorsJane Mummery (0000-0002-2823-5464), Peta Bowden (Murdoch University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Pages224
Publication date2009-05-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueUnderstanding Feminism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAcumen Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/upo9781844654451
OpenAlexW2240846308
Open LibraryOL33524463M
ISBN9781844654451
LanguageEN
Citations received16

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

Autonomy · Diversity (politics) · Expression (computer science) · Feminism · Feminist movement · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Discrimination & Race Relations · Feminist theory · Minority Studies · Second-wave feminism · Social movements · Social Science · Théorie féministe

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