Is there such a thing as post-feminism and, if so, what is it? Has there been a backlash against feminism as Susan Faludi's book of that title argued? What is the future of feminism in the new century? Feminism has been one of the most important and radical movements in ideas and in society over the last forty years. Yet the roots of modern feminist and post-feminist thought stretch back much further than the 1960s. This Pocket Essential looks at the important names in the history of feminism, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Germaine Greer, and at the most significant texts, from John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth. It explores the history of feminist thought and the wide range of debate and discussion in contemporary feminism.
" This history--the story of women who first claimed the name feminists--builds an essential bridge between the presuffrage period and today.
This is where Anderson made his intervention: at the point at which we have data collected on the entire population, we no longer need modeling, or any other “theory” to first test and then prove. We can look directly at the data ...
Chafe, The American Woman, pp. 177–78. 24. The quotations are all from chapter titles in Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York, 1963). 25. For a fuller discussion, see William L. O'Neill, American High: The Years of Confidence, ...
Through these women’s intertwined stories, Mary Trigg traces the changing nature of the women’s movement across turbulent decades rent by world war, revolution, global depression, and the rise of fascism.
Everywhere and Nowhere offers a clear, empirical analysis of the state of contemporary feminism while also revealing the fascinating and complex development of feminist communities in the United States.
With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.
Quoted in William L. O'Neill, Feminism in America: A History, 2nd ed. (New Brunswick, NJ, and Oxford: Transaction, 1989), 19-20. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (Cambridge ...
Organized in five sections that mirror the stages of consciousness-raising, this is an engaging, often edgy, look at a broad range of perspectives on the diversity, complexity, multiplicity, and playfulness of the third wave.
These are just some of the questions Amber E. Kinser, PhD, tackles in this latest addition to the Seal Studies Series.
The Book of Feminism is a weapon, a force, a lyrical cry, and an ongoing threat to misogyny everywhere.