Finding Feminism

Author : Alison Dahl Crossley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479898060

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Finding Feminism by Alison Dahl Crossley Pdf

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in social justice organizing in unexpected contexts and spaces, such as multicultural sororities, student government, and online. Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young women in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism—what Alison Dahl Crossley calls ‘Facebook Feminism.’ The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality. Offering a stunning and hopeful portrait of today’s young feminist leaders, Finding Feminism provides insight into the contemporary feminist movement in America.

Author : Pamela Grande Jensen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004189549

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Finding a New Feminism by Pamela Grande Jensen Pdf

This collection of original essays by prominent scholars of political theory contends that contemporary ideas of feminism have reached a theoretical impasse because they are unable to reconcile tensions between principles such as equality and difference. Finding A New Feminism places modern concepts of feminism within the historical context of political thought and uses feminism as a lens through which to examine the strengths and weaknesses of liberal democracy, both in practice and in theory. By reconsidering classic works of literature, philosophy, and political theory, the authors identify certain deficiencies of liberal democracy but do not call for its complete abandonment. Instead, they present a new theory of feminism that fosters the reconciliation of conflicting and competing principles, as well as the private and public realms of women's lives. This is compulsory reading for students and scholars of political and feminist theory.

Author : Rachel Overvoll
Publisher : Peacock Proud Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732242747

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Finding Feminism by Rachel Overvoll Pdf

Throughout her memoir, Rachel shares how religious indoctrination influenced her relationships with men and her view of her own sexuality. This memoir is a triumphant account of how one young woman learned to heal from traumatic experiences, including an abusive engagement, crippling depression, and sexual assault.

Author : Finn Enke
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390381

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Finding the Movement by Finn Enke Pdf

In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained access to public athletic fields. They fought to open bars to women and abolish gendered dress codes and prohibitions against lesbian congregation. They created alternative spaces, such as coffeehouses, where women could socialize and organize. They opened women-oriented bookstores, restaurants, cafes, and clubs, and they took it upon themselves to establish women’s shelters, health clinics, and credit unions in order to support women’s bodily autonomy. By considering the development of feminism through an analysis of public space, Enke expands and revises the historiography of second-wave feminism. She suggests that the movement was so widespread because it was built by people who did not identify themselves as feminists as well as by those who did. Her focus on claims to public space helps to explain why sexuality, lesbianism, and gender expression were so central to feminist activism. Her spatial analysis also sheds light on hierarchies within the movement. As women turned commercial, civic, and institutional spaces into sites of activism, they produced, as well as resisted, exclusionary dynamics.

Author : Wang Zheng
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520292284

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Finding Women in the State by Wang Zheng Pdf

Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early PeopleÕs Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation to the cultural realm, showing how feminists within ChinaÕs film industry were working to actively create new cinematic heroines, and how they continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party. Wang discusses the causes for failure of ChinaÕs socialist revolution and raises fundamental questions about male dominance in social movements that aim to pursue social justice and equality. This is the first book engendering the PRC high politics and has important theoretical and methodological implications for scholars and students working in gender studies as well as China studies.

Author : Alison Dahl Crossley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479884094

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Finding Feminism by Alison Dahl Crossley Pdf

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in social justice organizing in unexpected contexts and spaces, such as multicultural sororities, student government, and online. Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young women in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism—what Alison Dahl Crossley calls ‘Facebook Feminism.’ The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality. Offering a stunning and hopeful portrait of today’s young feminist leaders, Finding Feminism provides insight into the contemporary feminist movement in America.

Author : Victoria Bailey,Andrea O'Reilly,Fiona Joy Green
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772584578

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Coming into Being by Victoria Bailey,Andrea O'Reilly,Fiona Joy Green Pdf

This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists. Experiences of motherhood can involve unique discriminations and oppressions, as well as new challenges and possibilities. What may have been overlooked, tolerated, or perhaps even gone unnoticed before becoming a mother, can become overtly apparent or even unavoidable afterwards. Becoming a mother may also lead to a questioning of current feminist priorities and practices, and a recognition of the need for, or even demand for, a mother-centred mode of feminism. This anthology, separated into three sections &– &‘ Losing and Finding,' &‘ Challenging and Critiquing,' and, &‘ Connecting and Conversing' &– provides intersectionally sensitive and broad-ranging interdisciplinary insights into mothers' perceptions of, connection to, and realizations of, feminism. International contributors examine this complex topic through a wide variety of texts including personal and scholarly essays, creative non-fiction, letters and Q and A style discussion, poetry, art, and photography.

Author : Alexandra Z. Dobrowolsky,Fiona MacDonald,Tracey Raney,Cheryl N. Collier,Pascale Dufour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1047453846

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Finding Feminism by Alexandra Z. Dobrowolsky,Fiona MacDonald,Tracey Raney,Cheryl N. Collier,Pascale Dufour Pdf

Author : Becky Citra
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781927583265

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Finding Grace by Becky Citra Pdf

Growing up in the 50s with a single mother and no father, Hope is a loner with a wonderful imagination. The letters she writes to her imaginary friend, Grace, help her cope with the difficult times in her life - her mother's sad days, their money worries, the pressures of not fitting in. On her eleventh birthday, Hope is shocked to learn that Grace is real. Hope decides that by finding Grace, their family will be healed. But, like most adventures, things do not go exactly as she hopes.

Author : Naomi Black
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722219

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Virginia Woolf as Feminist by Naomi Black Pdf

Before the Second World War and long before the second wave of feminism, Virginia Woolf argued that women's experience, particularly in the women's movement, could be the basis for transformative social change. Grounding Virginia Woolf's feminist beliefs in the everyday world, Naomi Black reclaims Three Guineas as a major feminist document. Rather than a book only about war, Black considers it to be the best, clearest presentation of Woolf's feminism. Woolf's changing representation of feminism in publications from 1920 to 1940 parallels her involvement with the contemporary women's movement (suffragism and its descendants, and the pacifist, working-class Women's Co-operative Guild). Black guides us through Woolf's feminist connections and writings, including her public letters from the 1920s as well as "A Society," A Room of One's Own, and the introductory letter to Life As We Have Known It. She assesses the lengthy development of Three Guineas from a 1931 lecture and the way in which the form and illustrations of the book serve as a feminist subversion of male scholarship. Virginia Woolf as Feminist concludes with a discussion of the continuing relevance of Woolf's feminism for third-millennium politics.

Author : Stephanie Staal
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586488765

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Reading Women by Stephanie Staal Pdf

When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it “a mildly interesting relic from another era.” But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work—and was surprised how much she identified with the laments and misgivings of 1950s housewives. She set out on a quest: to reenroll at Barnard and re-read the great books she had first encountered as an undergrad. From the banishment of Eve to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Staal explores the significance of each of these classic tales by and of women, highlighting the relevance these ideas still have today. This process leads Staal to find the self she thought she had lost—curious and ambitious, zany and critical—and inspires new understandings of her relationships with her husband, her mother, and her daughter.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373377

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Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed Pdf

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.

Author : Janet Biehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000026314611

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Finding Our Way by Janet Biehl Pdf

Finding Our Way is a well-written, clear introduction to a range of ecofeminist thought. In four essays, Biehl explores ecofeminism's intellectual affinities with social ecology and other schools of thought; critiques the increasing role of Goddess mythology within today's movement; spiritedly defends reason and naturalism against what she sees as a "counter-Enlightenment" mentality within feminist and academic circles; and mines the Western democratic tradition for its relevant political insights for feminists today.

Author : June Eric-Udorie
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0349009880

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Can We All Be Feminists? by June Eric-Udorie Pdf

'The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read' BUSTLE 'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' GRAZIA' Edited by the amazing activist June Eric-Udorie, this is not just a key read but a mandatory one' STYLIST Why do so many women struggle to fully identify with the word 'feminist'? Why is intersectionality so important? How can we make feminism more inclusive? In Can We All Be Feminists? seventeen writers from diverse backgrounds wrestle with these questions, exploring what feminism means to them in the context of their other identities - from a hijab-wearing Muslim to a disability rights activist to a transgender journalist. Edited by the inspiring activist and writer June Eric-Udorie, this impassioned, thought-provoking collection offers a vision for a new feminism that is truly for all. Including essays by: Soofiya Andry, Gabrielle Bellot, Caitlin Cruz, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, Evette Dionne, Aisha Gani, Afua Hirsch, Juliet Jacques, Wei Ming Kam, Mariya Karimjee, Eishar Kaur, Emer O'Toole, Frances Ryan, Zoé Samudzi, Charlotte Shane, and Selina Thompson. Shortlisted for the 2019 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing

Author : ALISON. DAHL CROSSLEY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1032317248

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Feminism in the United States by ALISON. DAHL CROSSLEY Pdf

Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction presents readers with the key debates and ideas central to contemporary US feminism. With a focus on intersectionality, the book highlights the goals, tactics, and varieties of feminism, and is ideal for students enrolled in introductory classes in feminist and gender studies.