Antifeminism and Family Terrorism - A Critical Feminist Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Rhonda Hammer is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and teaches in women's studies and communication at UCLA. She is co-author of Rethinking Media Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy of Representation. Klappentext Rhonda Hammer's Antifeminism and Family Terrorism presents original and provocative critical feminist perspectives on violence against women and children. Hammer provides a clear and insightful analysis of the current rhetoric produced by antifeminists who would deny the seriousness of the problem and thus undercut important feminist concerns. Dr. Hammer documents the tragic dimensions of the brutalization of women and children in the family, and the larger problem of the increasing poverty and oppression of women and children in the global economy. Zusammenfassung Responding the on-going backlash against feminism! the author documents the dimensions of the brutalization of women and children in the family! and in the global economy. The study demonstrates the need for a transfomative feminist theory and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Antifeminism, Postfeminism, and the Backlash Chapter 3 Culture Wars over Feminism: Paglia, Wolf, and Hoff Sommers Chapter 4 The F-Word and the Victimization Debate Chapter 5 Family Terrorism Chapter 6 Colonization, Dialectics, and Borderland Feminism Chapter 7 Bibliography Chapter 8 Index

Product details

• Authors: Rhonda Hammer, Hammer Rhonda
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2002
• EAN: 9780742510500
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1050-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Culture and Politics Series; Culture and Politics (Paperbac; Culture and Politics Series; Culture and Politics (Paperbac; Culture and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory