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"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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Understanding Feminism
• Author: Jane Mummery, Peta Bowden
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781844651948
• ISBN: 1844651940
• ID: 04857860
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 570 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2009

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