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Partial Truths and the Politics of Community (Hardcover)
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Partial Truths and the Politics of Community (Hardcover)
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Partial Truths and the Politics of Community considers what happens
after feminists succeed in achieving social change or in founding
organizations dedicated to accomplishing their personal and social
goals. This collection of eighteen essays by scholars from the
fields of international relations and feminist studies explores the
theoretical dilemmas and practical politics of living with raised
consciousnesses in ""worlds of our own making."" The contributors
explore feminisms as dreams of human rights, as a cluster of
ideologies, and as a bounty of social practices set within
frameworks for tackling problems in nation-building and global
governance. In essays that illustrate the impact of feminist
concerns with the quality of education, the contributors offer
studies of homeschooling, of the education of impoverished girls in
rural Mexico, of sororities and their relation to female autonomy,
and of the teaching of prisoners by volunteers in county jails.
Other contributors call for a greater attention to the ecology of
social life, viewing society as a complex of individuals bound to
one another through webs of transactions and obligations. These
contributors recount examples from Northern Ireland, Poland, and
the United States in which such webs sometimes support and
sometimes strangle efforts to achieve human dignity and autonomy.
Evaluating progress made in the legal realm, other contributors
chart the opportunities and limitations of international and
domestic law as tools to advance and protect human rights. They
consider gender discrimination in universities and colleges, the
United Nations and its mixed record on women's issues, and the
effects of adding rape to the list of prosecutable war crimes. The
volume concludes with two works on how feminism supports democratic
constructions of science and religion, with results that
destabilize dominant institutions in both realms.
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