Feminism Backwards

Author : Rosita Sweetman
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781177587

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Feminism Backwards by Rosita Sweetman Pdf

Feminism Backwards is part memoir, part documentary. A founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement Rosita Sweetman gleefully recalls the triumphs – and the tribulations – of trying to drag a reluctant Ireland into the 20th Century, crucially, re-appraising Chains or Change the IWLM's famous pamphlet, detailing what life was like for women in 1970s Ireland - appalling. Feminism Backwards is also a howl of despair at how women have been treated worldwide down through the centuries, and how misogyny and sexual repression got such a stranglehold on Ireland. Having a survived a marriage break up Rosita re-found her feminism sadly buried, along with her chutzpah. She passionately believes feminism is not about blaming men, or pushing a few women to the top so they can be 'she-men' for the patriarchy. It's about creating a world fit for everyone.

Author : Alexander Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004438897

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The Book Read Backwards by Alexander Barnes Pdf

The Book Read Backwards traces the history of patriarchy and its consequent representation and deconstruction in feminist literature. Questioning the presuppositions of feminist thought and analyzing the origins and validity of terminology utilized in such thinking, Barnes critiques modern thought within the framework of a gulf between the historical and the ideological. As the author states in the preface, "Feminism reveals the leavening of human thought acknowledged in words. Like all ideology it forms, progresses and grows." This text gives the reader considerable insight into that process.

Author : Julie Bindel
Publisher : Constable
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1472132629

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Feminism for Women by Julie Bindel Pdf

Author : Jane Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000060783424

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Princess Backwards by Jane Gray Pdf

Ages 4 to 8 years. Princess Fred can't get the hang of life in her kingdom, where everything is the reverse of what we are used to. She struggles to do things the way everyone else in the kingdom does, but people call her "Princess Backwards". When the castle is threatened, however, Princess Fred realises that her way isn't wrong, just different -- and it may just save the day!

Author : Jessa Crispin
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612196022

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Why I Am Not a Feminist by Jessa Crispin Pdf

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution. Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo. In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, Jessa Crispin demands more. Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice—and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression. Praise for Jessa Crispin, and The Dead Ladies Project "I'd follow Jessa Crispin to the ends of the earth." --Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex "Read with caution . . . Crispin is funny, sexy, self-lacerating, and politically attuned, with unique slants on literary criticism, travel writing, and female journeys. No one crosses genres, borders, and proprieties with more panache." --Laura Kipnis, author of Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation "Very, very funny. . . . The whole book is packed with delightfully offbeat prose . . . as raw as it is sophisticated, as quirky as it is intense." --The Chicago Tribune

Author : Majella Moynihan
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529336009

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A Guarded Life by Majella Moynihan Pdf

A GARDA, A FORCED ADOPTION, A FIGHT FOR JUSTICE In 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young garda recruit when she gave birth to a baby boy. Charged with breaching An Garda Síochána's disciplinary rules - for having premarital sex with another guard, becoming pregnant, and having a child - she was pressured to give up her baby for adoption, or face dismissal. It forced her into a decision that would have devastating impacts on her life. Majella left the force in 1998 after many difficult years and, in 2019, following an RTÉ documentary on her case, she received an apology from the Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice for the ordeal she endured as a young garda. Here, for the first time, she tells the full story. From an institutional childhood after the death of her mother when she was a baby, to realising her vocation of becoming a guard only to confront the reality of a police culture steeped in misogyny and prejudice, A Guarded Life is both a courageous personal account of hope and resilience in the darkest times, and a striking reflection on womanhood and autonomy in modern Ireland.

Author : Catherine D'Ignazio,Lauren F. Klein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262547185

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Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio,Lauren F. Klein Pdf

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.

Author : Christine Sylvester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052179627X

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Feminist International Relations by Christine Sylvester Pdf

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Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836188

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Through Feminist Eyes by Joan Sangster Pdf

"Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada."--Pub. desc.

Author : Mona Charen
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780451498397

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Sex Matters by Mona Charen Pdf

Author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country In this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships--by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. Here, she upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough and crucial questions, such as: Did women's full equality require the total destruction of the nuclear family? Did it require a sexual revolution that would dismantle traditions of modesty, courtship, and fidelity that had characterized relations between the sexes for centuries? Did it cause the broken dating culture and the rape crisis on our college campuses? Did it require war between the sexes that would deem men the "enemy" of women? Have the strides of feminism made women happier in their home and work life. (The answer is No.) Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes--family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 047701674X

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Walking Backwards Into the Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy J. Chodorow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300173377

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Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory by Nancy J. Chodorow Pdf

Essays discuss the relations among gender, self, and society, the significance of women's mothering for gender personality and gender relations, and how the psychodynamics of gender create and sustain individualism

Author : Hanna Rosin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101596920

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The End of Men by Hanna Rosin Pdf

Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington Post Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how our current state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down. And in The End of Men she helps us see how, regardless of gender, we can adapt to the new reality and channel it for a better future.

Author : Gerald Schoenewolf, PH D
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798651347575

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The Rise of Feminism by Gerald Schoenewolf, PH D Pdf

Feminism is perhaps the most influential political movement of our times. In this volume a noted psychoanalyst looks at the history of feminism, analyzes its effect on American and world culture, and sheds light on its ultimate meaning. The book shows how, over the course of a hundred years, feminism became more than a political movement; it became a way of life and a new morality to many, and those who spoke out against the feminist doctrine were seen as engaging in hate speech and as proclaiming themselves to be culturally backwards. How did feminism get to this place? Fulfilling his psychoanalytic commitment to search for the truth, the author examines the psychological underpinnings of the women's movement. He looks at its stated goals (its conscious mind) in comparison with its ultimate consequences (its unconscious byproducts) and wonders whether feminism took society to a place that was beneficial to all And he examines whether it achieved its original goal of equality between men and women.On a more personal level, the author details his own involvement with the movement from his youth to the present, and describes various encounters with radicals. He tells about feeling hurt by the constant trashing of males that was part and parcel of the feminist movement, and how he was concerned about the demise of gender balance caused by feminism. He observes feminism's idealization of one gender and demonization of the other and writes of his concerned about the effect of this imbalance on the family, child-rearing and on the quality of life. This volume argues that as feminism became more radical and as its focus shifted from equal rights to a wholesale reconstruction of culture, it created more chaos and confusion than meaning. This important volume takes a backward glance at one of the most powerful political movements of our time."

Author : Rafia Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781324006626

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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria Pdf

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority. An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism, centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals. Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and “the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West” to the condescension of the white feminist–led “aid industrial complex” and the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.