Author : J. Outshoorn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230591426
Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.
Author : Amy Mazur
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 1995-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Sixteen essays by international contributors present detailed case studies exploring the government agencies designed to further feminist goals in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the US. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
Author : J. Kantola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230626327
Where is feminist state theory today? This book offers novel insights into social science debates by analyzing feminist theories of the state. The themes are developed within a comparative perspective. Focusing on devolution in Scotland and the European Union, the book further explores how feminist state theories conceive multi-level governance.
Author : Dorothy E. McBride
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439902097
Addressing essential questions of women's movement activism and political change in Western democracies.
Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674896468
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon’s powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state. The result is an informed and compelling critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.
Author : Angela McRobbie
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1446200345
In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and ′affirmative feminism′ and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the ′end′ of feminism, this book argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilisation are being re-established. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so-called female freedom, appearing supportive of female success, yet tying women into new post-feminist neurotic dependencies. With a scathing critique of ′women′s empowerment′, McRobbie has developed a distinctive feminist analysis that she uses to examine socio-cultural phenomena embedded in contemporary women′s lives: from fashion photography and the television ′make-over′ genre to eating disorders, body anxiety and ′illegible rage′. A turning point in feminist theory, The Aftermath of Feminism will set a new agenda for gender studies and cultural studies.
Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1642593788
Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.
Author : Stephanie Staal
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1586488767
When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it "a mildly interesting relic from another era." But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work -- and was surprised how much she identified with the laments and misgivings of 1950s housewives. She set out on a quest: to reenroll at Barnard and re-read the great books she had first encountered as an undergrad. From the banishment of Eve to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Staal explores the significance of each of these classic tales by and of women, highlighting the relevance these ideas still have today. This process leads Staal to find the self she thought she had lost -- curious and ambitious, zany and critical -- and inspires new understandings of her relationships with her husband, her mother, and her daughter.
Author : Stephanie Gilmore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Second-wave feminism
ISBN : 0252075390
A fresh new look at the productive partnerships forged among second-wave feminists
Author : Nancy Fraser
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1844679845
Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action. During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis. Feminism can be a force working in concert with other egalitarian movements in the struggle to bring the economy under democratic control, while building on the visionary potential of the earlier waves of women’s liberation. This powerful new account is set to become a landmark of feminist thought.
