Feminist Action I

Author : Christopher P. Manfredi
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0774809477

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Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court by Christopher P. Manfredi Pdf

Since 1980, the Canadian women's movement has been an active participant in consitutional politics and Charter litigation. This book, through its focus on the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), presents a compelling examination of how Canadian feminists became key actors in developing the constitutional doctrine of equality, and how they mobilized that doctrine to support the movement's policy agenda. The case of LEAF, an organization that has as its goal the use of Charter litigation to influence legal rules and public policy, provides rich ground for Christopher Manfredi's keen analysis of legal mobilization. In a multitude of areas such as abortion, pornography, sexual assault, family law, and gay and lesbian rights, LEAF has intervened before the Supreme Court to bring its understanding of equality to bear on legal policy development. This study offers a deft examination of LEAF's arguments and seeks to understand how they affected the Court's consideration of the issues. Perhaps most important, it also contemplates the long-term effects of the mobilization, and considers the social impact of the legal doctrine that has emerged from LEAF cases. A major contribution to law and society studies, Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court is unparalleled in its analysis of legal mobilization as an effective strategy for social movements. It will be widely read and welcomed by legal scholars, political scientists, lawyers, feminists, and activists.

Author : Jaime Harker,Cecilia Konchar Farr
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097904

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This Book Is an Action by Jaime Harker,Cecilia Konchar Farr Pdf

The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave.

Author : Nancy A. Naples,Karen Bojar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317794998

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Teaching Feminist Activism by Nancy A. Naples,Karen Bojar Pdf

From theoretical analysis to practical teaching tools, an indispensable guide for educators seeking to link feminist theory and activism to their teaching. Included are web sites, videos, recommended texts, and additional course outlines.

Author : Joy Holland
Publisher : London : Battle Axe Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UOM:39015011538298

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Feminist Action I by Joy Holland Pdf

Author : Julie Shayne
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438452456

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Taking Risks by Julie Shayne Pdf

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminist and social movements in the Americas. Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women. The essays are based on the textual analysis of interviews, oral histories, ethnography, video storytelling, and theater. The contributors come from many disciplinary backgrounds, including theater, history, literature, sociology, feminist studies, and cultural studies. The topics range from the underground library movement in Cuba, femicide in Juárez, community radio in Venezuela, video archives in Colombia, exiled feminists in Canada, memory activism in Argentina, sex worker activists in Brazil, rural feminists in Nicaragua, to domestic violence organizations for Latina immigrants in Texas. Each essay addresses two themes: telling stories and taking risks. The authors understand women activists across the Americas as storytellers who, along with the authors themselves, work to fill the Latin American and Caribbean studies archives with histories of resistance. In addition to sharing the activists’ stories, the contributors weave in discussions of scholarly risk taking to speak to the challenges and importance of elevating the storytellers and their histories. “Julie Shayne took a risk with this book, and the result is impressive: By challenging the activism-research divide that US academies so often sustain, the authors in this collection challenge epistemological as well as national, race, class, age, and gender boundaries. Taking Risks is a must read for researchers and students alike!” — Amy Lind, editor of Development, Sexual Rights, and Global Governance

Author : Menoukha Robin Case,Allison V. Craig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351727204

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Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action by Menoukha Robin Case,Allison V. Craig Pdf

Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action is an accessible foundation that whets appetite for further study. It provides a non-US-centric introduction to gender studies, covering topics like 19th-century African, Chinese, and Arab movements, and foregrounds Black and Indigenous feminisms. Several case studies—the Aztecs and the Spanish, Agriculture and Gender, Beauty and Authority, Racial Stereotypes, and US Voting Rights—reveal how the interconnected architecture of privilege and oppression affects issues like globalization, media, and the environment. Feminist theories about race, sexuality, class, disabilities, and more culminate in step-by-step instructions for applying intersectionality and practicing activism. Rich with 19 diverse first-person voices, it brings feminism to life and lives to feminism.

Author : Gabriele Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135746988

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Feminist Activism in the 1990s by Gabriele Griffin Pdf

Feminist activism is often taught as an historical phenomenon, and many students entering courses on women's studies are not familiar with current feminist work in the field. This book documents a wide variety of different forms of feminist activism in the 1990s, from organisations such as "Rights for Women" and "Southall Black Sisters" to "Asian Women's Work in Refuges". It raises questions about the meaning of feminist activism and its interpretation within women's studies and other academic disciplines. The chapters suggest, against much current representation within women's studies and elsewhere, that feminism is still alive.; With a comprehensive introduction providing an historical overview of the development of feminist activism from second wave feminism onwards, this text is intended to be of use as a resource for all students of women's studies and related courses.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317588375

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Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks Pdf

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

Author : F. Mackay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137363589

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Radical Feminism by F. Mackay Pdf

Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a vibrant and original account of the global Reclaim the Night March.

Author : Julie Shayne
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438452470

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Taking Risks by Julie Shayne Pdf

Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women. The essays are based on the textual analysis of interviews, oral histories, ethnography, video storytelling, and theater. The contributors come from many disciplinary backgrounds, including theater, history, literature, sociology, feminist studies, and cultural studies. The topics range from the underground library movement in Cuba, femicide in Juárez, community radio in Venezuela, video archives in Colombia, exiled feminists in Canada, memory activism in Argentina, sex worker activists in Brazil, rural feminists in Nicaragua, to domestic violence organizations for Latina immigrants in Texas. Each essay addresses two themes: telling stories and taking risks. The authors understand women activists across the Americas as storytellers who, along with the authors themselves, work to fill the Latin American and Caribbean studies archives with histories of resistance. In addition to sharing the activists' stories, the contributors weave in discussions of scholarly risk taking to speak to the challenges and importance of elevating the storytellers and their histories.

Author : Barbara Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317796107

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Feminism and the Women's Movement by Barbara Ryan Pdf

In Feminism and the Women's Movement, Barbara Ryan integrates a broad historical view with an analytical framework drawn from the theory of social movements. Relying on participation and observation of diverse groups involved in the woman's movement, interviews with long-term activists, and readings of historical and contemporary movement publications, she discusses the changing nature of feminist ideology and movement organizing. Ryan portrays the successes and difficulties that women have faced in their efforts to effect social change in recent history.

Author : Wendy Lynne Lee
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781460400760

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Contemporary Feminist Theory and Activism by Wendy Lynne Lee Pdf

In this book, Wendy Lynne Lee sets out to demonstrate how feminist theorizing is relevant to issues that may seem less directly about the status and emancipation of women but that are vital, she argues, to forming connections with other important twenty-first century movements. Lee shows how a feminist approach to crafting these connections can shed light on the economic disparity and entrenched gender inequality of global markets; the role technology plays in our conception of reproductive rights, sexual identity, and gender; the rise of religious fanaticism; and the relationship between our conceptions of gender, nonhuman animals, and the environment. Timely, politically passionate, and forcefully argued, Contemporary Feminist Theory and Activism will reinvigorate feminist thought for the twenty-first century.

Author : Jennifer Baumgardner,Amy Richards
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466814820

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Grassroots by Jennifer Baumgardner,Amy Richards Pdf

From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political. Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question: What can I do? Whether you are concerned about the environment, human rights violations in Tibet, campus sexual assault policies, sweatshop labor, gay marriage, or the ongoing repercussions from 9-11, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards believe that we all have something to offer in the fight against injustice. Based on the authors' own experiences, and the stories of both the large number of activists they work with as well as the countless everyday people they have encountered over the years, Grassroots encourages people to move beyond the "generic three" (check writing, calling congresspeople, and volunteering) and make a difference with clear guidelines and models for activism. The authors draw heavily on individual stories as examples, inspiring readers to recognize the tools right in front of them--be it the office copier or the family living room--in order to make change. Activism is accessible to all, and Grassroots shows how anyone, no matter how much or little time they have to offer, can create a world that more clearly reflects their values.

Author : Gabriele Griffin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0748402896

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Feminist Activism in the 1990s by Gabriele Griffin Pdf

This text documents the various forms of feminist activism in the 1990s, exploring the meaning of feminist activism and its interpretation within women's studies and other disciplines. An historical overview of the development of feminist activism.

Author : Sohela Nazneen,Maheen Sultan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783609697

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Voicing Demands by Sohela Nazneen,Maheen Sultan Pdf

Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women's political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women's voice under different contexts. Bringing together the reflections and experiences of feminist researchers and activists in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, this unique volume explores how various global trends, such as the development of transnational linkages, the rise of conservative forces, the NGOization of feminist movements, and an increase in the power of donors, have created opportunities and challenges for feminist voice and activism.