GENDER TROUBLE: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Ten years ago I completed the manuscript of Gender Trouble and sent it to Routledge for publication. I did not know that the text would have as wide an audience as it has had, nor did I know that it would consti tute a provocative “intervention” in feminist theory or be cited as one of […]
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES: GENDER IN A TRANSNATIONALWORLD Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue ofthe Americas, NewYork, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2006, 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, […]
This book is an attempt to approach the study of gender both as an academic practice and as a feature of our everyday lives. We encounter issues relating to gender even before we leave the womb – as parents plan for the birth of a girl or a boy by preparing clothes in appropriate colours […]
Influenced mainly by liberal and socialist feminists, several gendered approaches to development have emerged, in part, as critiques of the major theoretical approaches to development – modernisation theory, underdevelopment and dependency theory, and neo-liberalism – in the Third World countries since the 1950s. A major policy highlight of this has been the predominance of ‘efficiency […]
People often consider feminism to be a modern idea and assume that women of the past simply accepted the life carved out for them. In fact, women’s rights have been at the forefront of political and social debate for centuries. Written over 200 years ago, The Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges started […]
The Declaration of Sentiments begins by asserting the equality of all men and women and reiterates that both genders are endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It argues that women are oppressed by the government and the patriarchal society of which they are a part
This book includes a diversity of women’s lived experiences and provides framing feminist concepts such as intersectionality. It strives to have students consider privilege, systems of oppression, and diversity of experience.
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This book should be mandatory reading for all adults in the 21st century, as it sheds light on the severity of oppression by patriarchy and how it deprives women of agency. Beauvoir exposes the mechanisms of patriarchal oppression, breaking down the foundations of male dominance in societies.
This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries.