Author: Shere HitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Men
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change
Author: Shere HiteWomen as Revolutionary Agents of Change
Author: Shere HitePublisher:
ISBN: 9780340601778
Category : Change (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change
Author: Shere HitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Recently published to much acclaim in England, these reflective essays by Shere Hite reveal and explore the methodological and philosophical import of the famous Hite Reports on male and female sexuality and love and include extensive excerpts from the reports themselves. To read this outstanding distillation of Hite's writings is to see the continuing impact of her prodigious work over two decades, to hear her views on the issues facing women as agents of social change, and to be taken to the cutting edge of current debates on sexual politics.
Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change
Author: Shere HitePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747513773
Category : Change (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
For 20 years Shere Hite has been conducting ground-breaking research into the personal lives of women and men. From her conclusions she has formulated philosophical guidelines which have initiated and enlightened debates about sexuality, love, marriage, autonomy, friendships between women, male psychology, the family and our very culture in a time of radical change.P PFrom the first Hite Report which presented a new theory of female sexuality - one defined by women themselves and not imposed by the vagaries of Freud, patriarchy or Masters and Johnson - to her celebrated psychosexual investigations of men and her latest analysis of the emotions surrounding love as women describe them, Shere Hite is consistently challenging. She takes the pulse of iniduals, astonishing amounts of them, and on the basis of wide-ranging research formulates her theories.;This book shows the impact of her work over two decades and, at the same time, takes us to the cutting edge of the current debate on sexual politics in our culture. P
Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health
Author: Ellen ColePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317764331
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy, feminist psychology, and women’s mental health as they exist today. The 48 women share their life stories in the hope that they will inspire and encourage readers to take their own risks and their own journeys to the outer edges of human possibility. Authors write about what led up to their achievements, what their accomplishments were, and how their lives were consequently changed. They describe their personal stages of development in becoming feminists, from unawareness to activism to action. Some women focus on the painful barriers to success, fame, and social change; others focus on the surprise they experience at how well they, and the women’s movement, have done. Some well-known feminist foremothers featured include: Phyllis Chesler Gloria Steinem Kate Millett Starhawk Judy Chicago Zsuszanna Emese Budapest Andrea Dworkin Jean Baker Miller Carol Gilligan In Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health, many of the women see in hindsight how prior projects and ideas and even dreams were the forerunners to their most important work. They note the importance of sisterhood and the presence of other women and the loneliness and isolation experienced when they don’t exist. They note the validation they have received from grassroots feminists in contrast to disbelief from professionals. Although these women have been and continue to be looked up to as foremothers, they realize how little recognition they’ve been given from society-at-large and how much better off their male counterparts are. Some foremothers write about the feeling of being different, not meshing with the culture of the time and about challenging the system as an outsider, not an insider. These are women who had few mentors, who had to forge their own way, “hit the ground running.” Their stories will challenge readers to press on, to continue the work these foremothers so courageously started. Throughout the pages of Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health runs a sense of excitement and vibrancy of lives lived well, of being there during the early years of the women’s movement, of making sacrifices, of taking risks and living to see enormous changes result. Throughout these pages, too, sounds a call not to take these changes for granted but to recognize that feminists, rather than arguing over picayune issues or splitting politically correct hairs, are battling for the very soul of the world.
Between Labor and Capital
Author: Pat WalkerPublisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896080379
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The lead essay by Barbara and John Ehrenreich opens the debate about the nature of the "middle class." Do those who work between labor and capital constitute a third class, or will different sectors tend to ally with either the working class or the capitalist class, or is a whole new conception of the dynamics of social change necessary?
Women, Resistance and Revolution
Author: Sheila RowbothamPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781682003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example fit to inspire today’s generation of feminist thinkers and activists.
Modernizing Women
Author: Valentine M. MoghadamPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261717
Category : Muslim women
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."
Women as Agents of Change: Advancing the Role of Women in Politics and Civil Society: Hearing Before Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleven
Author: Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
Author: Harriet Branson ApplewhitePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064137
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Comparative historical investigations of gender and political culture in 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary movements