Understanding Feminism
Author | : Peta Bowden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317492313 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317492315 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Download or read book Understanding Feminism written by Peta Bowden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.