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Title: Gender Struggles
Condition: New
Subtitle: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism
ISBN-10: 0742512541
EAN: 9780742512542
ISBN: 9780742512542
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 03/04/2002
Description: Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left significant marks on how we think about practical matters, most notably the old and new forms of gender struggles that many women confront in their daily lives. The essays collected in Gender Struggles are designed to highlight those influences by addressing the following questions: What is practical feminism in a postmodern world? How does rethinking the nature and boundaries of philosophy affect the way we understand practical issues that we confront daily? What new forms of freedom, autonomy, subjectivity, social welfare, motherhood, public and private space, and political resistance have emerged from this new philosophical sense? Together, the sixteen essays in this volume represent many different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and theoretical frameworks. The essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such as adoption, care work, and the home. Incorporating the latest, most "cutting-edge" material on feminism, this volume aims at reaching a broad spectrum of readers by connecting postmodern feminist theory with concrete issues that are practical and relevant to their daily lives and experiences.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 157mm
Item Width: 26mm
Item Weight: 603g
Contributor: Constance L. Mui (Edited by), Kathryn Pyne Addelson (Contributions by), Sandra Lee Bartky (Contributions by), Susan Bordo (Contributions by), Rosi Braidotti (Contributions by), Susan J. Brison (Contributions by), Judith Butler (Contributions by), Drucilla L. Cornell (Contributions by), Deirdre E. Davis (Contributions by), Nancy Fraser (Contributions by), Evelynn M. Hammonds (Contributions by), Nancy J. Hirschmann (Contributions by), Eva Feder Kittay (Contributions by), Sharon Marcus (Contributions by), Marsha Marotta (Contributions by), Julien S. Murphy (Contributions by), Iris MarionYoung (Contributions by), Linda M. G. Zerilli (Contributions by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Feminist Constructions
Author: Constance L. Mui
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Year: 2002

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