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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

By Margaret Walters

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
0-19-280510-X, 978-0-19-280510-2
LCC
HQ1206 .W24 2005
Open Library ID
OL3409740M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2799108 bytes)
Series
Very Short Introductions
Pages
160\169
Topic
Education
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries. Walters examines the difficulties and inequities that women still face, more than forty years after the "new wave" of 1960s feminism--difficulties, particularly, in combining domesticity, motherhood and work outside the home. How much have women's lives really changed? In the West, women still come up against the "glass ceiling" at work, with most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments--in, for example, Islam, Hinduism, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian sub-continent?

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