Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism: Kathryn Pyne Addelson: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Gender Struggles

Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism

Textbook

Gender Struggles

Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism

Textbook

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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, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such as adoption, care work, and the home. Incorporating the latest, most "cutting-edge" material on feminism, this volume aims at reaching a broad spectrum of readers by connecting postmodern feminist theory with concrete issues that are practical and relevant to their daily lives and experiences.

Chapter 1 Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary
Chapter 2 Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom
Chapter 3 After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment
Chapter 4 "Not My Way Sesha, Your Way, Slowly": "Maternal Thinking" in the Raising of a Child with Profound Intellectual Disabilities
Chapter 5 The Emergence of the Fetus
Chapter 6 Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity
Chapter 7 Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention
Chapter 8 Sovereign Performatives
Chapter 9 The Harm That Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women
Chapter 10 The Sexual Harasser is a Bully, Not a Sex Fiend
Chapter 11 Suffering to be Beautiful
Chapter 12 Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
Chapter 13 Time, Space, and Motherhoods
Chapter 14 Re-thinking Consciousness Raising: Citizenship and the Law and Politics of Adoption
Chapter 15 House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme
Chapter 16 Cyberfeminism with a Difference

Product details

Published	Apr 03 2002
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	192
ISBN	9780742512559
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Constance L. Mui

Anthology Editor

Julien S. Murphy

Contributor

Kathryn Pyne Addelson

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Sandra Lee Bartky

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Susan Bordo

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Rosi Braidotti

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Susan J. Brison

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Judith Butler

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Drucilla L. Cornell

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Deirdre E. Davis

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Nancy Fraser

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Evelynn M. Hammonds

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Nancy J. Hirschmann

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Eva Feder Kittay

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Sharon Marcus

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Marsha Marotta

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Julien S. Murphy

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Iris MarionYoung

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Linda M. G. Zerilli

Gender Struggles represents the views of some of the most imaginative and provocative feminist thinkers of our time, demonstrating the practical significance of major theoretical innovations of the 20th Century for the everyday lives of women. These essays powerfully suggest that feminist philosophy can change the ways that we think about our lives, including work, child care and family, violence against women, our sense of self-worth, our speech, and our relations with each other.

Kelly Oliver, SUNY, Stony Brook
A volume of first-rate essays, which demonstrates the continued vibrancy and diversity of feminist theory in the new century.

Sonia Kruks, Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics, Oberlin College; author of Retrieving Experience
This intriguing collection offers a unique combination of philosophically bold and theoretically astute essays on practical feminist issues concerning everyday life and 'real world' politics. Feminist philosophy in the best of both senses!

Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College