This wide-ranging and up-to-date text provides a critical study from second wave feminism to current debates in 1990s feminist theory and politics. Topics covered include liberal feminism, radical feminism, lesbian feminism and men in feminism.
How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and …
Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies, and politics in communities as diverse as the rubber tappers in the rainforests of Brazil and activist groups fighting environmental racism in New York City. Environmental struggles occur through…
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates
In the past decade the central principles of western feminist theory have been dramatically challenged. Many feminists have endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to contemporary critiques of mod…
De auteur belicht in dit boek de positie van vrouwen voor en na val van het staatssocialisme in Oost-Duitsland, Polen, Tsjecho-Slowakije en Hongarije en toont hoe de thema's rond gender vandaag zijn in het hart van potentieel explosieve processen van sociale en politieke transfo…
Researching women's lives from a feminist perspective
by Maynard, Mary, Purvis, June
fromGender & society
In de introductie op de stand van zaken binnen vrouwenstudies en de vrouwenbeweging in Rusland, de Oekraïne en andere ex-Sovjetstaten wordt met name ingegaan op vrouwengeschiedenis en de invloed van nationalisme op de vrouwenbeweging. In het eerste deel komt een aantal historisc…
Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological root of the "Deep Ecology" movement spre…
Auteur zoekt naar een manier om op en feministische manier les te geven in exacte vakken. In het boek zijn programma's van gegeven cursussen opgenomen.
History of Pakistani women's struggles for their rights in the 20th century. This struggle is set in the context of the country's troubled politics and the specific role of the Islam