Gender Struggles

Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism

Author: Constance L. Mui
Secondary Author: Julien S. Murphy
ISBN: 9780742512559

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, f

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publish Date: 2002-01-01

Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / General, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Feminism)