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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808136403321

Autore

Lamas Marta

Titolo

Feminism : transmissions and retransmissions / / Marta Lamas ; translated by John Pluecker ; introduction by Jean Franco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

1-283-12411-4

9786613124111

0-230-11893-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Theory in the world

Classificazione

LIT006000LIT004050LIT003000LIT004290SOC032000

Altri autori (Persone)

PlueckerJohn

FrancoJean

Disciplina

305.420972

Soggetti

Feminism

Feminism - Mexico

Women - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Theory in the World: A General Introduction; Translator's Note; Preface; Introduction: Thinking Feminism from Mexico; 1 From Protests to Proposals: Scenes from a Feminist Process; 2 Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action in the Workplace; 3 Gender: Some Conceptual and Theoretical Clarifications; 4 Feminisms: Disagreements and Arguments; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The book explores what has happened in Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. The essays compiled in this book seek to transmit and retransmit knowledge, reflections and experiences of feminists like Marta Lamas with the goal of opening up dialogue and debate to new generations. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, Marta Lamas has written four texts that present her work as a thinker and as an organizer: the political development of a wing of the movement, affirmative action in the workplace, conceptual advances in regards to gender, and disagreements among feminists. In regards to method, Lamas presents her reflections as a member of the feminist movement and pairs this history with her own theoretical analysis as a feminist anthropologist,



keenly interested in social constructions of gender, sexuality and nation. The audience for the book would be a general feminist audience in addition to academic readers in anthropology, history, gender studies, sociology and Latin American studies"--