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Originally published in 1994, asks how moral theories, whether
traditional or feminist are made a reality. Using detailed examples
to bring moral norms to light, the book addresses historical cases
and contemporary social problems such as teen pregnancy,
contraception, abortion and gay rights. Her in-depth study of
Margaret Sanger's early work on birth control shows how the
knowledge of birth control as well as the action of abortion was
(and still is) declared deviant and reveals the collective nature
of both morality and knowledge.
Originally published in 1994, asks how moral theories, whether
traditional or feminist are made a reality. Using detailed examples
to bring moral norms to light, the book addresses historical cases
and contemporary social problems such as teen pregnancy,
contraception, abortion and gay rights. Her in-depth study of
Margaret Sanger's early work on birth control shows how the
knowledge of birth control as well as the action of abortion was
(and still is) declared deviant and reveals the collective nature
of both morality and knowledge.
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.
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