Introducing Feminism

Introducing Feminism
Author: Cathia Jenainati
Publisher: Totem Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day.

An Introduction to Feminism

An Introduction to Feminism
Author: Lorna Finlayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316473104

As well as providing a clear and critical introduction to the theory, this refreshing overview focuses on the practice of feminism with coverage of actions and activism, bringing the subject to life for newcomers as well as offering fresh perspectives for advanced students. Explanations of the main strands to feminism, such as liberalism, sit alongside an exploration of a range of approaches, such as radical, anarchist and Marxist feminism, and provide much-needed context against which more familiar historical themes may be understood. The author's broad and inclusive view conveys the diversity and disagreement within feminism with accessible clarity. The analysis of key terms equips readers with a critical understanding of the vocabulary of feminist debates that will be invaluable to undergraduate students.

Introducing Feminism

Introducing Feminism
Author: Cathia Jenainati
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781848311213

Unique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.

Data Feminism

Data Feminism
Author: Catherine D'Ignazio
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0262358530

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.

Introducing Feminist Theology

Introducing Feminist Theology
Author: Anne M. Clifford
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1570752389

Introducing Feminist Theology responds to the questions "What is feminist theology?" and "Why is it important?" by considering the perspectives of women from around the globe who have very diverse life experience and relationships to God, Church and creation. Clifford introduces the major forms of feminist theology: "radical, " "reformist, " and "reconstructionist, " and highlights some of their specific characteristics.

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Margaret Walters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2005-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 019280510X

This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.

Governance Feminism

Governance Feminism
Author: Janet Halley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452956405

Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or the child welfare bureaucracy. Feminists have built institutions and participate in governance. The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists—global North and South; left, center, and right—emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law. Governance feminism poses new challenges for feminists: How shall we assess our successes and failures? What responsibility do we shoulder for the outcomes of our work? For the compromises and strange bedfellows we took on along the way? Can feminism foster a critique of its own successes? This volume offers a pathway to critical engagement with these pressing and significant questions.

Generational Feminism

Generational Feminism
Author: Iris van der Tuin
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739190180

Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict. Generational logic is said to problematize feminist theory and gender research as it follows a logic of divide and conquer between the old and the young and participates in patriarchal structures and phallologocentrism. Examining the continental philosophies of Bergson and Deleuze and French feminisms of sexual difference, van der Tuin paves the way for a more complex notion of generationality. This new conception of the term views generational cohorts as static measurements that happen in the flow of being. Prioritizing this generative flow gives what is measured its proper place as an effect. Generational Feminism: New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach experiments with a previously disregarded methodology's implications as an impetus for a new materialism and advances feminist politics for the twenty-first century.

Introducing Feminism

Introducing Feminism
Author: Cathia Jenainati
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848317824

The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day. "Introducing Feminism" is an invaluable reference book for anyone seeking the story of how feminism reconfigured the world for women and men alike.

Feminism for Beginners

Feminism for Beginners
Author: Susan Alice Watkins
Publisher: Icon Books Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1992
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781874166047

This book cuts through the myths surrounding the subject and provides an incisive account of the women's movement. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.