Sheila Tobias

Faces Of Feminism

An Activist's Reflections On The Women's Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

Sheila Tobias discusses the relation between feminist theory and feminist politics, as well as the scope and influence of feminist scholarship on the academy and larger culture. She provides an overview of the 1960s civil rights, antiwar, countercultural revolution through to the contemporary era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780367315658
• ISBN-10: 0367315653
• Artikelnr.: 57733810

Autorenporträt

Sheila Tobias has been an academic and an activist for over twenty-five years. She has participated in many feminist gatherings, from the Congress to Unite Women in 1970 to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians in 1993, and is a former board member of the NOW Legal defence and Education Fund. The author of the best-seller Overcoming Math Anxiety as well as Women, Militarism, and War (with Jean Bethke Elshtain), Tobias now works as a consultant to universities on math and science education, equity issues, and women's studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Gender and Politics Redefined
2 The Emergence of Women's Rights as a Political Issue
3 Feminism in the Postsuffrage Era
4 Women at Work
5 Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique
6 The Origins of the Second Wave of Feminism
Three Strands and an Accident
7 The Women's Movement Goes to Work: Role Equity Issues
8 Second-Generation Issues: Conflict over Role Change
9 Antifeminist Women on the Right: The Battle over the ERA
10 Feminism and Sexual Preference: Lesbians and Lesbian Rights
11 Third -Generation Issues: Issues on Which Feminists Do Not Agree
12 New Theory
New Scholarship
13 Fissures into Fractures
14 Surviving the 1980s
15 The End of a Movement