Skeptical Feminism
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Skeptical Feminism
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Author : Carolyn Dever
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2004
Skeptical Feminism written by Carolyn Dever and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
In this major work, Carolyn Dever analyzes the politics of feminist theory by looking at its popular, activist, and academic modes, from the liberation movements of the 1970s to gender and queer studies now. Using key moments in the history of modern feminism -- consciousness-raising, best-selling books like Sexual Politics by Kate Millett, and media representations of women's struggle for equality -- Dever outlines heated debates over psychoanalysis, sexuality, and activism, and argues that a fundamental skepticism toward abstraction has been vital to the development of the movement. Powerful, illuminating, and galvanizing, Skeptical Feminism traces the strategies the women's movement has used to make theory matter -- and points toward a new, politically engaged approach to feminist thought. Book jacket.
The Sceptical Feminist
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Author : Janet Radcliffe Richards
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1982
The Sceptical Feminist written by Janet Radcliffe Richards and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Fiction categories.
In this important and original study, Janet Radcliffe Richards demonstrates with her incisive, systematic, and often unexpected arguments the precise nature of the injustice women suffer, and exposes the fallacious arguments by which it has been justified. Her analysis leads her to considerable criticism of many commonly held feminist views, but from it emerges the outline of a new and more powerful feminism which sacrifices neither rationality nor radicalism.
The Skeptical Feminist
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Author : Barbara G. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date : 1988-08-01
The Skeptical Feminist written by Barbara G. Walker and has been published by Harpercollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-08-01 with Religion categories.
The Sceptical Feminist Rle Feminist Theory
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Author : Janet Radcliffe Richards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
The Sceptical Feminist Rle Feminist Theory written by Janet Radcliffe Richards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Political Science categories.
A systematic and original study of feminist issues, The Sceptical Feminist fights a battle on two fronts: against the view that little or nothing is wrong with women’s position, and at the same time against much current feminist dogma. It is written by a philosopher who, in the tradition of John Stuart Mill’s classic The Subjection of Women, avoids the psychological and sociological speculation characteristic of much recent feminism and concentrates on the analysis of arguments. By these means she constructs a powerful and often unexpected case for radical change in the position of women, as well as for a change of attitude among many feminists. From her analysis, Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that positive discrimination in favour of women is essential for justice, that traditional sexual roles never had anything to do with beliefs about each sex’s capabilities, that current abortion practice reflects a disguised wish to punish women’s sexual activity, that ‘women’s work’ is rightly little valued, and that traditional ideals of femininity are inherently pernicious. But she also argues that a movement for sexual justice cannot ‘take the woman’s side in everything’, that feminism should not be thought of as the primary struggle, that dismissing ‘male’ logic and science will undermine feminists’ own intentions, that the state should not subsidise motherhood, that ever available crèches would be disastrous for women, that there is no inherent degradation in prostitution, and that contempt for beauty and adornment has nothing to do with feminism. This is a book for feminists, for their critics, and for students of moral, political and social philosophy.
Sceptical History
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Author : Hélène Bowen Raddeker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-04-30
Sceptical History written by Hélène Bowen Raddeker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with History categories.
A highly original work in history and theory, this survey considers major themes including identity, class and sexual difference, and weaves them into debates on the nature and point of history. Sceptical History arrives at new ways of doing history that consider non-Western history and feminist approaches. Using a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the study draws extensively on feminist scholarship, both feminist history and postcolonial feminism.
The Sceptical Feminist
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Author : Janet Radcliffe Richards
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1991
The Sceptical Feminist written by Janet Radcliffe Richards and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Feminism categories.
Am I A Woman
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Author : Cynthia Eller
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 2003
Am I A Woman written by Cynthia Eller and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Feminism categories.
Eller delves into gender theory and everyday experience to ask how we decide who is a woman and why we find the answer important. Is a woman defined by her anatomy? Does she perceive the world different then men? Is it her behaviour that marks her as inescapably female? Eller's answers demonstrate that it is far more complicated than it might at first appear.
Feminism Against Progress
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Author : Mary Harrington
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-04-25
Feminism Against Progress written by Mary Harrington and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with Political Science categories.
Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else's happiness for their sake. Mary Harrington shows that women's liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. This shift may benefit the elites, but it also makes it easier to commodify women's bodies, human intimacy, and female reproductive abilities. "Feminism" has been captured by well-off white-collar women, who use it to advance their own economic and political interests under the pretense that these are the interests of all women—all the while wielding the term like a club against anyone, male or female, who dissents. Feminism against Progress is a stark warning against a dystopian future in which poor women become little more than convenient sources of body parts to be harvested and wombs to be rented by the rich. "Progress" no longer benefits the majority of women, and only a feminism that is skeptical of it can truly defend their interests in the twenty-first century.
Feminism And The Abyss Of Freedom
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Author : Linda M. G. Zerilli
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-11-13
Feminism And The Abyss Of Freedom written by Linda M. G. Zerilli and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-13 with Social Science categories.
In contemporary feminist theory, the problem of feminine subjectivity persistently appears and reappears as the site that grounds all discussion of feminism. In Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, Linda M. G. Zerilli argues that the persistence of this subject-centered frame severely limits feminists' capacity to think imaginatively about the central problem of feminist theory and practice: a politics concerned with freedom. Offering both a discussion of feminism in its postmodern context and a critique of contemporary theory, Zerilli here challenges feminists to move away from a theory-based approach, which focuses on securing or contesting "women" as an analytic category of feminism, to one rooted in political action and judgment. She revisits the democratic problem of exclusion from participation in common affairs and elaborates a freedom-centered feminism as the political practice of beginning anew, world-building, and judging. In a series of case studies, Zerilli draws on the political thought of Hannah Arendt to articulate a nonsovereign conception of political freedom and to explore a variety of feminist understandings of freedom in the twentieth century, including ones proposed by Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. In so doing, Zerilli hopes to retrieve what Arendt called feminism's lost treasure: the original and radical claim to political freedom.
The Sceptical Feminist
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Author : Janet Radcliffe Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Sceptical Feminist written by Janet Radcliffe Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Feminism categories.