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Mapping the Women's Movement - Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North (Paperback, New)
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Mapping the Women's Movement - Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North (Paperback, New)
Series: Mappings
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The movement that began in the 1960s in the United States has gone
through many permutations, continuously emerging in new forms in
different parts of the world. Awareness of the issue of gender has
reached international institutions and has entered popular culture.
Yet this worldwide phenomenon is made up of individual movements,
occurring within national boundaries and shaped by distinct sets of
circumstances. Mapping the Women's Movement charts the development,
diversification and politics of movements in the United States and
key countries in Western and Eastern Europe, as well as Japan, in
order to draw out their wider implications. It shows that feminist
political action to change institutions, policy-making and the law
has been far more successful in delivering gains to women's lives
than was presaged by the early movement's emphasis on personal
liberation. These gains have been accomplished mainly through
public action and the mobilization of alliances with parties of the
left or with the support of governments and legislators. But the
emergence of a distinctly 'second-class' female workforce, plagued
by low pay and bereft of employment protection and benefits, shows
up the limits of women's ability to rely on market forces to
consolidate their position. Coupled with governmental moves to roll
back the boundaries of public responsibility, such developments
reveal the extent to which the women's movement needs instead to
ally itself with political forces tat value the role of the public
realm, and develop a strategy for operating in the current
business-oriented policy environment. An authoritative survey by
some of the most important contemporary writers on the subject,
Mapping the Women's Movement provides key pointers to the political
and ideological forces which shape women's lives today.
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