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UNINA9910820944203321 |
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Autore |
Bowden Peta <1946-> |
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Titolo |
Understanding feminism / / Peta Bowden & Jane Mummery |
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Stocksfield, : Acumen, 2009 |
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1-317-49231-5 |
1-317-49232-3 |
1-315-71156-7 |
1-283-45679-6 |
9786613456793 |
1-84465-445-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Understanding movements in modern thought |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminism |
Social movements |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-191) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Oppression -- Embodiment -- Sexuality and desire -- Differences among and within women -- Agency -- Responsibility. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 womens 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 |
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