Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politics
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Three decades after the remarkable resurgence of feminism, gender issues have become ubiquitous in public debate. For some, feminism is the favorite scapegoat for multiple social ills; for others, the greatest success story of the closing century. The Janus face of feminism in the media reflects the competing images of women's lives today. Feminists themselves hold sharply opposing views on the success or failures of three decades of women's activism. Why Feminism? looks at the shifts in feminist thinking from the brash emergence of Women's Liberation at the close of the 1960s to the diverse and discordant feminisms of recent decades. Exploring feminism's troubled relations with psychology and psychoanalysis, the rise of new evolutionary theory, the impact of queer theorizing on gender categories, controversies over memory and trauma, and increasing anxieties about men and masculinity, Why Feminism? illustrates the continuing provocation and significance of feminist inquiry, laying out potentialities and pitfalls for the century ahead.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231119658
ISBN13:9780231119658
Release Date:March 2000
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
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Excellent critique of postmodernists, etc.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Reading this brought me up to date with contemporary trends in feminist thinking. Ms. Segal is a socialist feminist, and her critique is correspondingly focused upon the relationship of abstractions to the real-life material issues of work, survival, and future prospects shared by most people. While fully conversant with the current cant of postmodernist academia, she thankfully is still able (and willing) to portray his arguments and concerns in pretty accessible garb. I for one am appreciative that she takes feminism off of the fully relativistic pedestal of "only text" and returns it to the realm of embodiment--the one where we must eat, sleep, and make our way in sensible and sensory avenues of life. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to be brought current with feminist thinking via a clearly expressed critique.
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