Gender Struggles - Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Feminist Constructions
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	April 2002
Editors:	Constance L. Mui
Contributors:	Kathryn Pyne Addelson • Sandra Lee Bartky • Susan Bordo • Rosi Braidotti • Susan J. Brison • Judith Butler • Drucilla L. Cornell • Deirdre E. Davis • Nancy Fraser
Dimensions:	228 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-1255-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-7425-1255-X
Barcode:	9780742512559

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