000			01437nam a2200157 4500
020			_a9788131604816
082			_a305.4201 _bBOW/U
100			_aBowden, Peta
245			_aUnderstanding feminism
260			_aJaipur _bRawat Publications _c2009
300			_a199 p.
520			_a"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.
650			_aFeminist theory _aFeminism
700			_aMummery, Jane
942			_cBK
999			_c60220 _d60220