TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowden,Peta
AU  - Mummery,Jane
TI  - Understanding feminism
T2  - Understanding movements in modern thought
SN  - 9781844654451 (ebook)
AV  - HQ1121 .B643 2009
U1  - 305.409 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Acumen Publishing
KW  - Feminism
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015); Oppression -- Embodiment -- Sexuality and desire -- Differences among and within women -- Agency -- Responsibility
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781844654451/type/BOOK
ER  -