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| Title: | Feminisms & Womanisms
: A Women's Studies Reader |
| Author: | Althea Prince & Susan Silva-Wayne (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0889614113 : 9780889614116 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 175x225mm |
| Pages: | 549 |
| Weight: | 1.155 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) - January 2004 |
| List Price: | 27.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Womens studies |
This book brings together theory and praxis, so that feminist discourse interacts as a partner with the lived experience of women's social action. The selections combine classics in feminist thought with work from modern theorists and offer a solid foundation in international feminism. The conceptual understanding embedded in the terms 'feminism' and 'womanism' contributes to feminist discourse, a carefully differentiated focus on the ideological uses of language to define relationships that have been historically mired in domination. The terms also define the way gender often has been used to signify and support domination. Given that feminism and womanism are interpretative concepts, there is always a sense that knowledge-making is in progress; for there is nothing static or stagnant about feminism, feminist theory, and feminist action. The formative nature of the feminist movement has, of necessity, a parallel interpretative theory. This Reader embraces both the formative nature of the movement and the accompanying interpretative theories. It also pays attention to the chronological, cultural, geo-political, racial, and ethnic landscapes and sites where women live, carry out social action, and theorise issues of equality. For both the general and the academic reader, this book will be edifying while providing exposure to the feminist and womanist voices that inform the scholarship.
Feminism As a Class Act: Working-Class Feminism and the Women's Movement in Canada; Self-Government and Aboriginal Women; Women's Movements and State Feminism: Integrating Diversity into Public Policy; Marriage and Love; Myth and Reality; The Crisis in Woman's Identity; The Middle-Class Myth of Love and Marriage; Life between the Lines; Feminism: A Transformational Politic; Why Are You a Feminist?; Women Who Run from the Wolves: Feminist Critique As Post-Feminism; Growing up White: Feminism, Racism, and the Social Geography of Childhood; Caribbean Feminism versus Canadian Feminism; Modest and Modern: Women As Markers of the Indian Nation State; Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians; Nakedness: Pride and Shame; Mothers, Daughters, and Feminism Today: Empowerment, Agency, Narrative, and Motherline; How I almost Killed My Mother in Childbirth; Crush Crash; How I almost Killed My Mother in Childbirth; The Construction of a Negative Identity; Eat and Disorder; Fat and Fabulous: Resisting Constructions of Female Body Ideals; Angry Naked Women; Blood and Cunts; Mother Root: Constant Craving; Racism, Women's Health, and Reproductive Freedom; The Double Standard of Ageing; The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman; Gerastology: A Feminist's View of Gerontology and Women's Aging; Are These Clothes Clean? The Campaign for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Home-workers; Class Is a Feminist Issue; The World of the Professional Stripper; In the Matter of "X": Building "Race" into Sexual Harassment; Privileging Agency and Organising: A New Approach for Women's Studies; Inclusive Pedagogy in the Women's Studies Classroom: Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case; Queer Pedagogues of the Closet: Teaching Ignorances in the Heteronormative Classroom; Discovering the Spark; Black Woman Rage; Credo of a Passionate Sceptic; Review of Diving into the Wreck; Not a Moral Issue; Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power; Mama's Got the Blues; From Trash to Treasure: Housewife Activists and the Environmental Justice Movement; Emerging from the Shadows: Women with Disabilities Organise; Reformulating the Feminist Perspective: Giving Voice to Women with Disabilities; Identity, Community, and Same-Sex Marriage; Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples; Women's Experiences with Mandatory Charging for Wife Assault in Ontario, Canada: A Case against the Prosecution; "Women Hackers: A Report from the Mission to Locate Subversive Women on the Net; The Gender Dimension to the Search for Global Justice; Gender Equality and Human Development Outcomes: Enhancing Capabilities; Ecofeminism.
