Feminist Nightmares

Feminist Nightmares
Title Feminist Nightmares PDF eBook
Author Susan Ostrov Weisser
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 416
Release 1994-10
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 0814726208

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Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the time has come to ask a painful and frequently avoided question: what does it mean for women to oppress women? This pathbreaking, provocative anthology addresses this troublesome dilemma from various feminist perspectives, offering an interdisciplinary collection of writings that widens our understanding of oppression to take into account women who are at odds. The book examines the social, political, and psychological ramifications of this phenomenon, as evidenced in a range of texts, from women's antislavery writing to women's anti-abortion writing, from mother-daughter incest stories to maternal surrogacy narratives, from the Bible to the popular romance nove, from Jane Austen to Alice Walker. The value of the volume is perhaps best summed up by an early response to the idea—This is a book that should never be written; feminists should concentrate on how men oppress women. Ironically, it is precisely because the subject triggers such responses, the authors argue, that a volume such as Feminist Nightmares has become a necessity.

Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds

Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds
Title Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds PDF eBook
Author Susan Ostrov Weisser
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 600
Release 1994-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0814794920

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Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the time has come to ask a painful and frequently avoided question: what does it mean for women to oppress women? This pathbreaking, provocative anthology addresses this troublesome dilemma from various feminist perspectives, offering an interdisciplinary collection of writings that widens our understanding of oppression to take into account women who are at odds. The book examines the social, political, and psychological ramifications of this phenomenon, as evidenced in a range of texts, from women's antislavery writing to women's anti-abortion writing, from mother-daughter incest stories to maternal surrogacy narratives, from the Bible to the popular romance nove, from Jane Austen to Alice Walker. The value of the volume is perhaps best summed up by an early response to the idea—This is a book that should never be written; feminists should concentrate on how men oppress women. Ironically, it is precisely because the subject triggers such responses, the authors argue, that a volume such as Feminist Nightmares has become a necessity.

Swastika Night

Swastika Night
Title Swastika Night PDF eBook
Author Katharine Burdekin
Publisher Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages 212
Release 1985
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780935312560

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In a "feudal Europe seven centuries into post-Hitlerian society, Burdekin's novel explores the connection between gender and political power and anticipates modern feminist science fiction."--Cover.

Defending Our Dreams

Defending Our Dreams
Title Defending Our Dreams PDF eBook
Author Shamillah Wilson
Publisher Zed Books
Pages 274
Release 2005-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9781842777275

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The unique experiences, perspectives and visions of young feminists are extremely valuable in both understanding the current world order and in shaping a better future. Young feminists are engaged as advocates, organisers, protesters, researchers and strategists, and their energies, visions, solidarity, creativity and passion are instrumental in defining social movements globally. This pioneering collection brings together analyses by feminists of diverse identities on a range of themes including women's rights and economic change; new technologies; sexuality; and feminist organizations and movements. Defending Our Dreams includes analyses by contributors from Uruguay, Venezuela, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, India, Canada, the USA, Australia, Barbados and the UK. This book is essential reading for all those engaged in feminist research, organizing and activism.

Arab Spring Women‰Ûªs Nightmare

Arab Spring Women‰Ûªs Nightmare
Title Arab Spring Women‰Ûªs Nightmare PDF eBook
Author SHABBIR TANKIWALA
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 92
Release 2017-11-10
Genre Humor
ISBN 0244046514

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Read this book "ARAB SPRING WOMEN'S NIGHTMARE" if you are interested in knowing facts about Humanitarian Catastrophe, well studied and unbiased insight of Humanitarian Crisis and Geopolitics, Heart-rending details and narratives of terrifying domestic violence much broader perspective of heinous crimes and atrocities committed against helpless women and children, crimes perpetrated that shames entire humanity "Stoning a woman to death, Incest, Female genital cutting (FGM), Honour killings, Forced Prostitution, Vitriolic Acid attack to disfigure woman's body," this is arguably one of the most moving book ever written on wider Humanitarian crisis.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
Title Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature PDF eBook
Author Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher Infobase Learning
Pages 2896
Release 2015-04-22
Genre Bio-bibliography
ISBN 1438140649

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Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

Midrashic Women

Midrashic Women
Title Midrashic Women PDF eBook
Author Judith R. Baskin
Publisher Brandeis University Press
Pages 246
Release 2015-05-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1611688698

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While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation, and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the dilemma of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she shows that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men. Recent feminist scholarship has illuminated many aspects of the significance of gender in biblical and halakhic texts but there has been little previous study of how aggadic literature portrays females and the feminine. Such representations, Baskin argues, often offer a more nuanced and complex view of women and their actual lives than the rigorous proscriptions of legal discourse.