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Compulsory Heterosexuality
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Equality Diff Erence Debate
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Kumari Jayawardena
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Understanding Feminism
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- ISBN 9781844651948
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 women's 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 far from being 'over', feminism remains a vital response to the diverse issues that women (and men) find pressing and socially important.
Peta Bowden is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia. Jane Mummery is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Ballarat, Australia.
