Rethinking Feminist Identification

Rethinking Feminist Identification
Author: Patricia Misciagno
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1997-11-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Is it possible to be a de facto feminist? This question is explored and debated in this book about the phenomenon of people who support feminist positions but do not call themselves feminists. The author examines the implications of de facto feminism on both the level of feminist theory as well as that of practical politics in the U.S. In a theoretical manner, the author considers how the problem of abstraction in many of the behavioral approaches to feminist identity have the unintended consequence of reinforcing elite depictions of social change. At the level of practical politics in the U.S., this has left feminism open to the many polemical attacks that have risen in recent years. The author asks whether the attempt to bring about beneficial policy can be rendered ineffective if women do not identify with the feminist organizations working on their behalf.

De Facto Feminism

De Facto Feminism
Author: Judy Juanita
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780971635210

In eighteen essays, including a prose poem, Judy Juanita's essay collection excavates the path an East Oakland girl forged over several tumultuous eras to become a novelist, playwright and poet, the de facto feminism that is an intrinsic part of the black struggle and the black community, the equally defiant entrepreneurship in the black community, often in the guise of kitchen beauticians, hair braiders and the Candy Lady in the projects, her own romance with The Gun and violence, her years as a Black Panther Party member and civil rights activist, her history as a domestic in New Jersey and a comic in California. She tops off this buffet with a lengthy, postmodern, spiritual essay written in epistolary form.

Oligarchical Feminism: The de Facto Official Religion of the Corporate Media

Oligarchical Feminism: The de Facto Official Religion of the Corporate Media
Author: Laith Doory
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-01-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781793986733

NEW RELEASE Feminism has been adopted as the de facto official religion of a multi-billion dollar corporate media that is liberal in only the most duplicitous and superficial sense of the word. Nevertheless feminists are hailing their takeover of the corporate media as a huge triumph. For all the many terms bandied about for different types of feminism, much of feminist ideology is to a large part a product of a particular Western mindset steeped in Euro-centric mythology. However, something rarely discussed by feminist writers is the concept of a brand of feminism co-opted and actively promoted by rightwing imposters, such as Gloria Steinem, and the very rightwing oligarchy that feminists are purported to be opposed to. This brand of feminism I term oligarchical feminism because its primary objectives are not any liberal notions of egalitarianism or social cohesion but that of depopulation and totalitarian control. Liberalism has been hijacked by a corporate feminism that serves an altogether different agenda. Please Take a Look Inside

Virgin Soul

Virgin Soul
Author: Judy Juanita
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101622857

From a lauded poet and playwright, a novel of a young woman's life with the Black Panthers in 1960s San Francisco At first glance, Geniece’s story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule with a part-time job. However, she does all of these things in 1960s San Francisco while becoming a militant member of the Black Panther movement. When Huey Newton is jailed in October 1967 and the Panthers explode nationwide, Geniece enters the organization’s dark and dangerous world of guns, FBI agents, freewheeling sex, police repression, and fatal shoot-outs—all while balancing her other life as a college student. A moving tale of one young woman’s life spinning out of the typical and into the extraordinary during one of the most politically and racially charged eras in America, Virgin Soul will resonate with readers of Monica Ali and Ntozake Shange.

C.O.R.P.O.R.A.T.I.O.N. ( Crooked Officials Robbing People Of Rights Against Truth In Our Nation) VS. WE THE PEOPLE

C.O.R.P.O.R.A.T.I.O.N. ( Crooked Officials Robbing People Of Rights Against Truth In Our Nation) VS. WE THE PEOPLE
Author: Roosevelt Tankard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-02-05
Genre:
ISBN:

This book is instilled with the fundamentals that will teach you to crush your alter ego and begin living the marvelous life thatYahawah (God) has created you to live. Placing this effective program into actions, will move you to enjoy the unequivocal libertyand fulfillment of God's true blessings. It's not coincidental that you purchased this book. It was part of Yahawah (God's) plan foryour life to intersect with Tazadaq, God's man, to arm you with the warrior's mentality, Right Knowledge, and over-standing andenlightenment required for you to inherit a blessed and amazing future. Once you embrace the warrior's mentality which trainsyou to be a solider in the army of the lord you will be blessed and utterly unstoppable. This is much more than just another selfhelp or motivational manual, this book that you are holding in your hands or reading on your computer screen, is the answer toyour prayers and a blueprint that you should follow to accomplish your goals and dreams. Qam Yahsharhal!

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law
Author: Tracy A. Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 147987681X

Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association Much has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership with Susan B. Anthony, and compiled all of her extensive writings and papers. Stanton herself was a prolific author; her autobiography, History of Woman Suffrage, and Woman’s Bible are classics. Despite this body of work, scholars and feminists continue to find new and insightful ways to re-examine Stanton and her impact on women’s rights and history. Law scholar Tracy A. Thomas extends this discussion of Stanton’s impact on modern-day feminism by analyzing her intellectual contributions to—and personal experiences with—family law. Stanton’s work on family issues has been overshadowed by her work (especially with Susan B. Anthony) on woman’s suffrage. But throughout her fifty-year career, Stanton emphasized reform of the private sphere of the family as central to achieving women’s equality. By weaving together law, feminist theory, and history, Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on and proposals for women’s equality in marriage, divorce, and family, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family that came to the fore in the 1960s and ’70s had nineteenth-century roots. Using feminist legal theory as a lens to interpret Stanton’s political, legal, and personal work on the family, Thomas argues that Stanton’s positions on divorce, working mothers, domestic violence, childcare, and many other topics were strikingly progressive for her time, providing significant parallels from which to gauge the social and legal policy issues confronting women in marriage and the family today.

Seeking Rights from the Left

Seeking Rights from the Left
Author: Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478002603

Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the “Pink Tide” in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela—the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights. Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals that the Left's more general political and economic projects have been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. Contributors: Sonia E. Alvarez, María Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas, Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson

The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict

The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Author: Karen Engle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1503611256

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict. But it hasn't always been this way. Analyzing feminist international legal and political work over the past three decades, Karen Engle argues that it was not inevitable that sexual violence in conflict would become such a prominent issue. Engle reveals that as feminists from around the world began to pay an enormous amount of attention to sexual violence in conflict, they often did so at the cost of attention to other issues, including the anti-militarism of the women's peace movement; critiques of economic maldistribution, imperialism, and cultural essentialism by feminists from the global South; and the sex-positive positions of many feminists involved in debates about sex work and pornography. The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict offers a detailed examination of how these feminist commitments were not merely deprioritized, but undermined, by efforts to address the issue of sexual violence in conflict. Engle's analysis reinvigorates vital debates about feminist goals and priorities, and spurs readers to question much of today's common sense about the causes, effects, and proper responses to sexual violence in conflict.