Argues that modern feminism grew out of the 19th-century Woman Movement which, like 19th-century thinking, became a battleground between individualist and collectivist ideas. This book examines this history, gives an overview of the contemporary scene, and analyses the campaign to pass and ratify an equal rights amendment - and its failure.
Traditional psychology textbooks have ignored the normative development of urban girls and the unique situations they face on a daily basis. Lumped together with their suburban, mostly white and middle class counterparts, their voices are frequently subsumed within the larger study of adolescent development. Urban Girls is the first book to ......
Traditional psychology textbooks have ignored the normative development of urban girls and the unique situations they face on a daily basis. Lumped together with their suburban, mostly white and middle class counterparts, their voices are frequently subsumed within the larger study of adolescent development. Urban Girls is the first book to ......
First Women's Rights Convention and Its Meaning for Men and Women Today
In 1848 the first Women's Rights convention occurred in Seneca Falls, New York, led by the suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The only man to support her was a black man, Frederick Douglass. This book looks at the story of Stanton and Douglass, and argues for a new kind of humanity in the future.
Whether you agree with Smith and Ferstman or not, this book will provoke you to think. And that may be its biggest contribution after all. --Professor Stephen TaubeneckUniversity of British Columbia J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman have collaborated on a project that shamelessly completes the incomplete work of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and ......
Whether you agree with Smith and Ferstman or not, this book will provoke you to think. And that may be its biggest contribution after all. --Professor Stephen TaubeneckUniversity of British Columbia J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman have collaborated on a project that shamelessly completes the incomplete work of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and ......
For reasons largely political, mainstream philosophy is reluctant to attack feminism, instead relegating it to the status of a crazy aunt in the attic. This work scales the forbidden staircase to critique contemporary feminism. It undresses academic feminism, exposing its pretensions, dogmas, fallacies, and peccadilloes.
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. This title turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia.
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, and body politics. This book turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia and more.
