Understanding Feminism (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Acumen Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Peta Bowden • Jane Mummery
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-84465-195-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-84465-195-9
Barcode:	9781844651955

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