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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820944203321

Autore

Bowden Peta <1946->

Titolo

Understanding feminism / / Peta Bowden & Jane Mummery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stocksfield, : Acumen, 2009

ISBN

1-317-49231-5

1-317-49232-3

1-315-71156-7

1-283-45679-6

9786613456793

1-84465-445-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Understanding movements in modern thought

Altri autori (Persone)

MummeryJane <1970->

Disciplina

305.409

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism

Social movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Oppression -- Embodiment -- Sexuality and desire -- Differences among and within women -- Agency -- Responsibility.

Sommario/riassunto

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.