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Feminist Experiences

Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810132400

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Feminist Experiences develops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyze, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes. Oksala investigates the philosophical challenges and outlines the ontological presuppositions and methodological innovations the project requires. Drawing on conceptual tools from the thought of Michel Foucault, but also from the tradition of phenomenology, she explores the role of experience in feminist philosophy and its relationship to language and linguistic meaning. Oksala concludes by sketching a feminist ontology of the present through a critical investigation of neoliberalism and the challenges it presents to feminist theory and politics.

Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminist Theory)

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136195532

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The Women’s Movement is usually referred to as if it were a constant, global phenomenon. There are women’s movements in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan and Australia, and many women and men assume that they are regional manifestations of the same thing, and share a common core. Susan Bassnett has lived and been involved in the struggles of the women’s movement in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, and has had extensive contacts with feminists in the German Democratic Republic. On the basis of her personal experiences and study of women’s history and literature in these countries she is able to present a striking picture of the variety of feminist aims, tactics and priorities in the four countries, and of the character of the women’s movement in four very different cultures. In Italy, she focuses on the violence of the women’s movement – its intellectualism and energy. In analysing the American women’s movement she dwells on its roots in the past, and its faith in pragmatic solutions. The GDR presents completely different questions, hinging on the relationship between state socialism and feminism. In the UK, Susan Bassnett finds herself returning to that all-pervasive aspect of British life – class, and its importance for feminists. Throughout, the author writes with a double commitment: first, to furthering our understanding of the diversity of aims of women’s movements and their common ground – the no-man’s land of female existence; second, to making her book as accessible as possible to all feminists, through drawing on her own personal experience of countries in which she has lived, worked, travelled, and made friends.

Feminist Political Ecology

Author : Dianne Rocheleau,Barbara Thomas-Slayter,Esther Wangari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135098407

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Feminist Political Ecology by Dianne Rocheleau,Barbara Thomas-Slayter,Esther Wangari Pdf

Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City. Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern local knowledge, everyday practice, rights to resources, sustainable development, environmental quality, and social justice. The book bridges the gap between the academic and rural orientation of political ecology and the largely activist and urban focus of environmental justice movements.

Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminist Theory)

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136195525

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Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminist Theory) by Susan Bassnett Pdf

The Women’s Movement is usually referred to as if it were a constant, global phenomenon. There are women’s movements in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan and Australia, and many women and men assume that they are regional manifestations of the same thing, and share a common core. Susan Bassnett has lived and been involved in the struggles of the women’s movement in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, and has had extensive contacts with feminists in the German Democratic Republic. On the basis of her personal experiences and study of women’s history and literature in these countries she is able to present a striking picture of the variety of feminist aims, tactics and priorities in the four countries, and of the character of the women’s movement in four very different cultures. In Italy, she focuses on the violence of the women’s movement – its intellectualism and energy. In analysing the American women’s movement she dwells on its roots in the past, and its faith in pragmatic solutions. The GDR presents completely different questions, hinging on the relationship between state socialism and feminism. In the UK, Susan Bassnett finds herself returning to that all-pervasive aspect of British life – class, and its importance for feminists. Throughout, the author writes with a double commitment: first, to furthering our understanding of the diversity of aims of women’s movements and their common ground – the no-man’s land of female existence; second, to making her book as accessible as possible to all feminists, through drawing on her own personal experience of countries in which she has lived, worked, travelled, and made friends.

Cross-Cultural Interviewing

Author : Gabriele Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317438106

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Cross-Cultural Interviewing by Gabriele Griffin Pdf

Interviewing is one of the most common techniques used to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of globalization, researchers increasingly conduct interviews cross-, inter- and intra-nationally. This raises important questions about how differences and sameness are understood and negotiated within the interview situation, as well as the power structures at play within qualitative research, and the role that reflexivity plays in mediating these. What does it mean to interview Black women as a Black woman? How is ethnicity negotiated across various qualitative research encounters? How are differences bridged or asserted in feminist interviewing? These are just some of the questions explored in the chapters in this volume. Drawing on their recent research, the contributors detail their experiences of engaging in qualitative interviewing and examine how they negotiated the various dilemmas they encountered. The contributions challenge some of the assumptions made in early feminist work on interviewing, providing nuanced accounts of actual research experiences. This volume explores the practice and implications of conducting cross-, inter- and intra-cultural interviewing, bringing together researchers from a range of disciplines and countries to describe and analyse both its vicissitudes and its advantages.

Living a Feminist Life

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373377

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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.

Retrieving Experience

Author : Sonia Kruks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501731839

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In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory—a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and "lived" experiences. Through her original readings of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers—including Sartre, Fanon, and Merleau-Ponty—and her own analyses inspired by their work, Kruks sheds new light on central problems in feminist theory and politics. These include debates about subjectivity and individual agency; questions about recognition and identity politics; and discussion of whether embodied experiences may sometimes facilitate solidarity among groups of different women.

Through Feminist Eyes

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836188

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"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.

Feminist Experiences

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780415636766

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Feminist Experiences by Susan Bassnett Pdf

The Women's Movement is usually referred to as if it were a constant, global phenomenon. Susan Bassnett has lived and been involved in the struggles of the women's movement in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, and has had extensive contacts with feminists in the German Democratic Republic. On the basis of her personal experiences and study of women's history and literature in these countries she is able to present a striking picture of the variety of feminist aims, tactics and priorities in the four countries, and of the character of the women's movement in four very different cultures. Throughout, the author writes with a double commitment: first, to furthering our understanding of the diversity of aims of women's movements and their common ground - the no-man's land of female existence; second, to making her book as accessible as possible to all feminists, through drawing on her own personal experience of countries in which she has lived, worked, travelled, and made friends.

The Feminist Utopia Project

Author : Alexandra Brodsky,Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558619012

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The Feminist Utopia Project by Alexandra Brodsky,Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Pdf

This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes). In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world of freedom and equality in which: An abortion provider reinvents birth control . . . The economy values domestic work . . . A teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music . . . The Constitution is re-written with women’s rights at the fore . . . The standard for good sex is raised with a woman’s pleasure in mind . . . The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo that accepts inequality and violence as a given, “offering playful, earnest, challenging, and hopeful versions of our collective future in the form of creative nonfiction, fiction, visual art, poetry, and more” (Library Journal).

Women's Experiences and Feminist Practices in South Korea

Author : Pil-wha Chang,Eun-Shil Kim
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 897300638X

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Women's Experiences and Feminist Practices in South Korea by Pil-wha Chang,Eun-Shil Kim Pdf

Textbook on women's studies and feminist research in South Korea. It covers a wide range of issues, including family, work, sexuality and women's movements. The book is designed for an upper-undergraduate and graduate level audience.

Why Stories Matter

Author : Clare Hemmings
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822349167

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Why Stories Matter by Clare Hemmings Pdf

A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory.

Feminist Experiences

Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810132419

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Feminist Experiences by Johanna Oksala Pdf

Feminist Experiences develops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyze, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes. Oksala investigates the philosophical challenges and outlines the ontological presuppositions and methodological innovations the project requires. Drawing on conceptual tools from the thought of Michel Foucault, but also from the tradition of phenomenology, she explores the role of experience in feminist philosophy and its relationship to language and linguistic meaning. Oksala concludes by sketching a feminist ontology of the present through a critical investigation of neoliberalism and the challenges it presents to feminist theory and politics.

Feminism and Intersectionality in Academia

Author : Stephanie Anne Shelton,Jill Ewing Flynn,Tanetha Jamay Grosland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319905907

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Feminism and Intersectionality in Academia by Stephanie Anne Shelton,Jill Ewing Flynn,Tanetha Jamay Grosland Pdf

This edited volume explores the diversities and complexities of women’s experiences in higher education. Its emphasis on personal narratives provides a forum for topics not typically found in in print, such as mental illness, marital difficulties, and gender identity. The intersectional narratives afford typically disenfranchised women opportunities to share experiences in ways that de-center standard academic writing, while simultaneously making these stories accessible to a range of readers, both inside and outside higher education.

Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Author : Rama Salla Dieng,Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772582741

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Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond by Rama Salla Dieng,Andrea O'Reilly Pdf

Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond asks and considers: What is feminist parenting? Is it something for all parents? What does it mean to be a feminist parent in practice? The collection aims to fill a gap on feminist parenting in the existing literature by bringing timely post-Western perspectives. More specifically, the anthology's main contribution is its explicit focus on feminist parenting from the margins to the global periphery: from Africa and its diaspora, from the Global South to Europe and America. The 27 parents from diverse backgrounds, walks of life, and countries gathered in this anthology share powerful responses to the above questions by narrating their experiences of some of the challenges, dilemmas, promises, and compromises of parenting with a feminist perspective. The volume is one of the first collections published with first-person essays describing very touching, beautiful, and sometimes painful stories of what it means and more importantly what it costs to become a feminist parent with an intersectional approach. In doing so, the authors of this book aim at (re)claiming parenting as a necessarily political terrain for subversion, radical transformation, and resistance to patriarchal oppression and sexism.