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Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists

Author : María González
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists written by María González and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Mexican-American women novelists - some of whom are moving toward a Chicana feminist construct - have produced very exciting work. Using the works of both Gloria Anzaldúa and Elaine Showalter as theoretical frameworks, this study argues for a specific Chicana feminism whose roots are both in and outside the Mexican-American culture. The authors included in Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists are Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Lucha Corpi, Margarita Cota-Cádenas, Roberta Fernández, Laura del Fuego, Irene Beltrán Hernández, Mary Helen Ponce, and Estela Portillo Trambley.

Circles of Care

Author : Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies Emily K Abel
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791402634
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Circles of Care written by Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies Emily K Abel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. It differs from most writing about caregiving because it focuses on the providers rather than the care recipients. It looks at the experience of women caregivers in specific settings, exploring what caregiving actually entails and what it means in their lives

Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s

Author : Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027279756
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s written by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women’s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other. The essays in this volume explore language, gender, mass media, sexuality, class and social change, women’s identity as Blacks and in the Third World as well as the nature of domination, feminine criticism and female creativity. The volume opens with a challenging question by the feminist poet Adrienne Rich, ‘Who is We?’

The Subject of Liberty

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825369
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Subject of Liberty written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Author : Adriana Cavarero
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823290107
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence written by Adriana Cavarero and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig—to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence. The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on post-Marxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics. Together, the authors contest the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous, but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence.

Breaking the Silence

Author : David Ikard
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149047
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Silence written by David Ikard and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perception that black male feminists are opportunists capitalizing on the current popularity of black women's writing and criticism. In Breaking the Silence, David Ikard goes boldly to the crux of this debate through a series of provocative readings of key African American texts that demonstrate the possibility and value of a viable black male feminist perspective. Seeking to advance the primary objectives of black feminism, Ikard provides literary models from Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go, James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, Toni Morrison's Paradise, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Walter Mosley's Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and Walkin' the Dog that consciously wrestle with the concept of victim status for black men and women. He looks at how complicity across gender lines, far from rooting out patriarchy in the black community, has allowed it to thrive. This complicity, Ikard explains, is a process by which victimized groups invest in victim status to the point that they unintentionally concede power to their victimizers and engage in patterns of behavior that are perceived as revolutionary but actually reinforce the status quo. While black feminism has fostered important and necessary discussions regarding the problems of patriarchy within the black community, little attention has been paid to the intersecting dynamics of complicity. By laying bare the nexus between victim status and complicity in oppression, Breaking the Silence charts a new direction for conceptualizing black women's complex humanity and provides the foundations for more expansive feminist approaches to resolving intraracial gender conflicts.

Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left

Author : Alicia Valdés
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100055161X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left written by Alicia Valdés and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While traditional feminist readings on antagonism have pivoted around the sole axis of sex and/or gender, a broader and intersectional approach to antagonism is much needed; this book offers an innovative, feminist, and discursive reading on the Lacanian concept of sexual position as a way to problematize the concepts of political antagonism and political subjects. Can Lacanian psychoanalysis offer new grounds for feminist politics? This discursive mediation of Lacan's work presents a new theoretical framework upon which to articulate proposals for intersectional political theory. The first part of this book develops the theoretical framework, and the second part applies it to the construction of woman’s identity in European politics and economy. It concludes with notes for a feminist political and economic praxis through community currencies and municipalism. The interdisciplinary approach of this book will appeal to scholars interested in the fields of psychoanalysis, feminisms, and political philosophy as well as multidisciplinary scholars interested in discourse theory, sexuality and gender studies, cultural studies, queer theory, and continental philosophy. Students at master's and PhD level will also find this a useful feminist introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis, discourse, and gender.

Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics

Author : Drucilla Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134454473
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics written by Drucilla Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist economists have demonstrated that interrogating hierarchies based on gender, ethnicity, class and nation results in an economics that is biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts.This rigorous and comprehensive book examines many of the central philosophical questions and themes in feminist economics inclu

Can We All Be Feminists?

Author : June Eric-Udorie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525504354
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Can We All Be Feminists? written by June Eric-Udorie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming “The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read” (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who “calls to mind a young Audre Lorde” (Kirkus) Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality? How do other aspects of our identities – such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more – impact how we relate to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important? In challenging, incisive, and fearless essays – all of which appear here for the first time – seventeen writers from diverse backgrounds wrestle with these questions, and more. A groundbreaking book that elevates underrepresented voices, Can We All Be Feminists? offers the tools and perspective we need to create a 21st century 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

The Lacanian Left

Author : Yannis Stavrakakis
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791473290
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Lacanian Left written by Yannis Stavrakakis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative exploration of the relationship of Lacanian psychoanalysis to political and democratic theory.

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674896468
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Feminist Theory of the State written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon’s powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state. The result is an informed and compelling critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Author : Laurie Finke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726250
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theory, Women's Writing written by Laurie Finke and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Feminist Theory, Women's Writing".

Colonial Fantasies

Author : Meyda Yegenoglu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626583
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Fantasies written by Meyda Yegenoglu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1998 book, Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial identity of the desire to penetrate the veiled surface of 'otherness'. Representations of cultural difference and sexual difference are shown to be inextricably linked, and the figure of the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.

Getting Lost

Author : Patti Lather
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480267
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Getting Lost written by Patti Lather and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2008 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association In this follow-up to her classic text Troubling the Angels, an experimental ethnography of women with AIDS, Patti Lather deconstructs her earlier work to articulate methodology out of practice and to answer the question: What would practices of research look like that were a response to the call of the wholly other? She addresses some of the key issues challenging social scientists today, such as power relations with subjects in the field, the crisis in representation, difference, deconstruction, praxis, ethics, responsibility, objectivity, narrative strategy, and situatedness. Including a series of essays, reflections, and interviews marking the trajectory of the author's work as a feminist methodologist, Getting Lost will be an important text for courses in sociology of science, philosophy of science, ethnography, feminist methodology, women and gender studies, and qualitative research in education and related social science fields.

Feminism Without Borders

Author : Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330219
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Feminism Without Borders written by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEssays by a pioneering theorist of feminism, multiculturalism, and antiracism./div

Empowerment and Interconnectivity

Author : Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271058145
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Empowerment and Interconnectivity written by Catherine Villanueva Gardner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the work of three nineteenth-century utilitarian feminist philosophers: Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Focuses on methodological questions in order to recover their philosophy and categorize it as feminist"--Provided by publisher.

Identities and Freedom

Author : Allison Weir
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199936889
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Identities and Freedom written by Allison Weir and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? In Identities and Freedom, Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young, and others, Weir develops a complex and nuanced account of identities that takes seriously the ways in which identity categories are bound up with power relations, with processes of subjection and exclusion, yet argues that identities are also sources of important values, and of freedom, for they are shaped and sustained by relations of interdependence and solidarity. Moving out of the paradox of identity and freedom requires understanding identities as effects of multiple contesting relations of power and relations of interdependence. "This is a terrific book, one that stakes out an original and distinctive position in some well-worn debates, and that brings together diverse bodies of theory in an insightful and productive way. It is a real gem. It offers substantial new insights into how feminist theorists can go on in the wake of the relentless critique of the notion of identity. The book will make a significant contribution to ongoing debates in feminist theory over the vexed question of identity - a question that is absolutely central to feminist theory, and has been so for at least the last twenty years." - Amy Allen, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College "This book makes great contributions to the feminist literature by reconceptualizing IDENTITY in terms of connectedness and FREEDOM in terms of practices of belonging. Through a fascinating and innovative synthesis of Michel Foucault and Charles Taylor, Weir's communitarian approach develops new arguments for the need to cultivate resistant identities and resistant communities. This impressive book is full of original ideas masterfully articulated in critical engagements with leading feminist scholars such as Saba Mahmood, Cynthia Willett, Iris Young, and Linda Zerilli. This provocative book is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary discussions of freedom, resistance, identity, and community." - José Medina, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University