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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838217803321

Autore

Weiss Penny A

Titolo

Feminist Reflections on Childhood : A History and Call to Action

Pubbl/distr/stampa

, : Temple University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-4399-1870-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Disciplina

305.2309

Soggetti

Children - History

Children - Social conditions

Children's rights - History

Feminist theory - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Introducing the Child and Feminist Perspectives. Chapter 1: Who/What Is a Child?-- Chapter 2: Why Feminist Reflections on Childhood? -- Part II: On Voice and Silence. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 3: The Everyday Silencing of Children and the Feminist Politics of Voice -- Part III: Historical Threads. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 4: Reflections on Childhood in the History of Feminist Thought: Tyranny and Resistance -- Chapter 5: Two Models of Feminist Childhoods: Emma Goldman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Bridging Historical and Contemporary Reflections. Chapter 6: Feminist Manifestos: Childhood on Feminist Agendas -- Part IV: Contemporary Threads. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 7: Learning from Feminist Epistemology -- Chapter 8: Learning from Feminist Disability Theory -- Chapter 9: Learning from Queer Theory -- Bridging Historical and Contemporary Reflections. Chapter 10: Childhood in Feminist Dystopias and Utopias.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book recovers a history of feminist thought and activism that demands greater voice and respect for young people, and urges contemporary social theorists, too, to do greater justice to children"--