Inside Ms
Title | Inside Ms PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Thom |
Publisher | Henry Holt & Company |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780805037326 |
Chronicles twenty-five years of Ms. magazine and its impact on women's publishing and the recent history of feminism in America and addresses such issues as battered women and the struggle for reproductive rights. 15,000 first printing.
The New Feminist Movement
Title | The New Feminist Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Lockwood Carden |
Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 1974-04-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1610441060 |
The feminist movement has become an established force on the American political and social scene. Both the small consciousness-raising group and the large, formal organization command the attention of our legislative bodies, media, and general public. Maren Lockwood Carden's new book is the first to look beyond feminist ideas and rhetoric to give a detailed study of the movement—its structure, membership, and history of the organizations that form a major part of present-day feminism. Fair, objective, and comprehensive, her study is based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with rank and file members and local and national leaders in seven representative cities during 1969-1971. In Dr. Carden's analysis, the movement has two divisions. First, the hundreds of small, informal "Women's Liberation" consciousness-raising and action groups. Second, the large, formally structured "Women's Rights" organizations like the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Women's Equity Action League. For both types of organizations, Dr. Carden covers members' reasons for participation; organizational structure; strategies and actions; and the relationship between ideology and structure, including the attempts by many groups to work as "participatory democracies." She also discusses the development of the movement from the mid-sixties to the present, and evaluates the long-term prospects for achieving the objectives of the various new feminist groups. Anyone interested in organizations, personality and society, and social change will welcome this detailed description and history of a complex and rapidly changing social movement. Highly readable and free of technical jargon, The New Feminist Movement tells us what's been happening to women in the last decade, what they want now, and where they may be headed in the future.
Women in the Acts of the Apostles
Title | Women in the Acts of the Apostles PDF eBook |
Author | Ivoni Richter Reimer |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780800628406 |
The many colorful women in the biblical book of Acts are brought to life in this book from a feminist liberation perspective: Sapphira, whose property in marriage is explained; Lydia, the seller of purple dye; Candace, the queen of Ethiopia; the disciple Tabitha; Priscilla, the co-apostle with her husband, Aquilla; and many others.
Liberation in Print
Title | Liberation in Print PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Beins |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820349518 |
Introduction origins and reproductions -- Printing feminism -- Locating feminism -- Doing feminism -- Invitations to women's liberation -- Imaging and imagining revolution -- Conclusion feminism redux
Politics, Gender, and Concepts
Title | Politics, Gender, and Concepts PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Goertz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2008-11-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521723428 |
A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development. This volume addresses this important gap in the literature by exploring the methodology of concept construction and critique, which is a crucial step to disciplined empirical analysis, research design, causal explanations, and testing hypotheses. Leading gender and politics scholars use a common framework to discuss methodological issues in some of the core concepts of feminist research in political science, including representation, democracy, welfare state governance, and political participation. This is an invaluable work for researchers and students in women's studies and political science.
The Women's Liberation Movement
Title | The Women's Liberation Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Schulz |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2017-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785335871 |
For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women’s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM’s cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.
The Feminine Mystique
Title | The Feminine Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Friedan |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780141192055 |
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver