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- ISBN 9780582506084
- Weight: 204g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Feminism is a cultural as well as a political movement. It changes the way women think and feel and affects how women and men live their lives and interpret the world. For this reason it has provoked lively debate and fierce antagonisms that have continued to the present day. Contemporary feminism and its concerns are rooted in a history stretching over at least two centuries.
Feminism explores this history in a range of countries spanning the world. It asks does ‘feminism’ exist? Or are the differences among feminist today so great that we should speak of ‘feminisms’? The book looks at the challenge made by feminists to prevailing ideas about a ‘woman’s place’, the complex relationship between equality and difference, women’s solidarity and the relationship between feminism and other social and political reform movements.
June Hannam is a lecturer at the University of the West of England. She has published widely on the history of women and has also written on the history of Bristol. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is also on the editorial board of Labour History Review, International Journal of Nursing History andWomen's History Review. She is the Chair of South West and Wales Women's History Network.
