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Feminism and Politics: A Comparative Perspective is a non-fiction book written by Joyce Gelb.It was published in 1989 by the University of California Press.It compares the feminist movement in Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom and is based on over 200 interviews Gelb conducted with feminist activists, academics, and politicians.
Combahee member Barbara Smith's definition of feminism that still remains a model today states that, "feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women, as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women. Anything less than ...
Sheila Rowbotham FRSA [a] (born 27 February 1943) is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many notable books in the field of women's studies, including Hidden from History (1973), Beyond the Fragments (1979), A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999), as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s.
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory is a 1983 collection of feminist essays by philosopher Marilyn Frye. Some of these essays, developed through speeches and lectures she gave, have been quoted and reprinted often, and the book has been described as a "classic" of feminist theory .
Feminist political theory combines aspects of both feminist theory and political theory in order to take a feminist approach to traditional questions within political philosophy. [2] The three main goals of the feminist political theory: To understand and critique the role of gender in how political theory is conventionally construed.
I am a feminist. I came of age in the wave of Betty Friedans’ The Feminine Mystique and the availability of birth control pills. Female college students like me began to realize we had more ...
Valerie Bryson is a British political scientist, who has published extensively on feminist theory and politics.She was appointed professor of politics at the University of Huddersfield in 2002, and is founder of the Centre for Democracy and Governance in 2006, serving as its director until 2008.
[266] [268] [269] These criticisms created new feminist social theories about identity politics and the intersections of racism, classism, and sexism; they also generated new feminisms such as black feminism and Chicana feminism in addition to making large contributions to lesbian feminism and other integrations of queer of colour identity.