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Radical feminism today / Denise Thompson.

By: Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2001Description: vi, 165 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761963413 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 23
Contents:
Pt. 1. Understanding Feminism -- 1. Defining Feminism -- 2. Ideology - Justifying Domination -- 3. Ideology - 'Enabling' and Disguising Domination -- Pt. 2. Misunderstanding Feminism -- 4. Feminism Undefined -- 5. Other Definitions -- 6. 'Difference' -- 7. Differences Among Women -- 8. What Does it Mean to Call Feminism 'White and Middle-Class'? -- 9. Masculinity and Dehumanization.
Summary: Radical Feminism Today offers a timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as f̀eminism' and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of ẁomen', g̀ender', d̀ifference' or r̀ace/gender/class'. She challenges some of the most widely accepted ideas about feminism and in doing so opens up a number of hitheto closed debates, allowing for the possibility of moving those debates further.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.42 THO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 90757

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Understanding Feminism -- 1. Defining Feminism -- 2. Ideology - Justifying Domination -- 3. Ideology - 'Enabling' and Disguising Domination -- Pt. 2. Misunderstanding Feminism -- 4. Feminism Undefined -- 5. Other Definitions -- 6. 'Difference' -- 7. Differences Among Women -- 8. What Does it Mean to Call Feminism 'White and Middle-Class'? -- 9. Masculinity and Dehumanization.

Radical Feminism Today offers a timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as f̀eminism' and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of ẁomen', g̀ender', d̀ifference' or r̀ace/gender/class'. She challenges some of the most widely accepted ideas about feminism and in doing so opens up a number of hitheto closed debates, allowing for the possibility of moving those debates further.

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