Changing the Wor(l)d - Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement

Informationen zum Autor Stacey Young received a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. She has taught government, women's studies and writing at Cornell University and at Skidmore College. She has also worked as a consultant on development and HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya, and as a journalist in Kampala, Uganda, where she currently lives. Her articles on sexuality and politics appear in several anthologies. Klappentext This book draws on feminist publishing, postmodern theory, and feminist autobiography to powerfully critique both liberal feminism and scholarship on the womens movement. Zusammenfassung A critique of the political science research and writing that has been done on the women's movement in the United States, this text argues that such has work has privileged liberal feminism over other feminist activity, much of it more subversive and radical. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS 1. Introduction; 2. Feminist Publishing as Discursive Politics; 3. The Autotheoretical Texts; 4. Social Science Studies of the Women's Movement: Problems in Theory and Method; 5. Social Movement Theory; 6. Postmodern Critiques: Power and Subjectivity, Domination and Resistance; 7. Social Science Methodology; 8. LastWords/Words First

Product details

• Authors: Stacey Young, Young Stacey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.1996
• EAN: 9780415913775
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91377-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Political science & theory, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies