Who's afraid of feminism? : seeing through the backlash
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Who's afraid of feminism? : seeing through the backlash
(Penguin books)
Penguin, 1998
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
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  Shizuoka
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1997
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-[288])
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a collection of essays examining the position of women in society today. It seeks to challenge the myth that women are out in the world working on the same terms as men, as well as the myth of the domesticated man. It also dissects the process of the dismantling of gender and the return to a naive masculinist understanding of women's place. Finally, it challenges the idea of women as a universal category, arguing instead for a recognition of multiple social groups in which women exist in different political regimes and cultural identities. The contributors are: Parminder Bhachu; Carol Gilligan; Jack Goody; Susan Heath; Carolyn Heilbrun; Juliet Mitchell; Ann Oakley; Patrizia Romito; Joanna Ryan; Ahneta Stark; Margaret Walters; Peggy Watson; and Nira Yuval-Davis.
Table of Contents
- Getting civilized, Carol Gilligan
- a brief history of gender, Ann Oakley
- American gothic - feminism, melodrama and backlash, Margaret Walters
- women, ethnicity and empowerment, Mira Yuval-Davis
- thoughts of a latecomer - on being a lesbian in the backlash, Susan Heath
- the end of a long marriage, Carolyn Heliburn
- homophobia and hegemony - a case of psyhcoanlaysis, Joanna Ryan
- (anti)feminism after Communism, Peggy Watson
- "damned if you do, damned if you don't" - psychological and social constraints on motherhood in contemporary Europe, Patrizia Romito
- dangerous desgins - Asian women and the new landscapes of fashion, Parminder Bhacu
- feminism, fatherhood and the family in Britain, Juliet Mitchell and Jack Goody
- combating the backlash - how Swedish women won the war, Agneta Stark.
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