Author: Marjorie Mayo Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040166024 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Originally published in 1977, this lively collection of papers by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women’s movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women’s thinking and of their practical experience of involvement in community organizations and groups. The book opens with a theoretical chapter on women’s rights, discussing reasons for the particular involvement of women in a range of community issues such as the housing struggle and the role of women in campaigns for nursery and other pre-school provision, and relates these factors to the women’s movement in general. The contributors go on to consider the organization of women who enable other women to go to work, including a case study of experience of Battered Wives’ Centres, a study of Women’s Aid Centres, a discussion of the Working Women’s Charter and the National Abortion Campaign, chapters by members of groups of single-parent families – Mothers in Action and Gingerbread – and a chapter on working with women in community groups, from the perspective of the community worker. Many issues are still relevant now, today it can be read in its historical context.
Author: Suzanne Franzway Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252093089 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues. By connecting the diversity of women's experiences around the world both inside and outside the home and highlighting the innovative ways women workers attain their common goals, Making Feminist Politics lays the groundwork for recognition of the total individual in the future of feminist politics within global union movements.
Author: George Stevenson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350066613 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
This is the first study of the British Women's Liberation Movement's relationship with class politics. It explores the meaning of class to women's liberationists' identities and activism, both nationally and regionally, using a previously neglected feminist cluster in North East England as a case study. Stevenson demonstrates that British feminism was shaped fundamentally by its relationship to, synthesis with, and rejection of class politics. Through these processes, feminists recognised how post-war changes in the economy and gender roles were reshaping class and the Women's Liberation Movement attempted to remake class politics in response. However, socio-economic and cultural class differences between the women involved - linked to occupation, education and background - remained intractable obstacles causing tensions within groups, fragmentations into specific class-based groups and the ultimate failure of the movement to coalesce into a coherent coalition with labour politics, despite great levels of solidarity around particular struggles. Examining regional feminism against the national backdrop, The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain provides an engaging exploration of the fruitful but challenging relationship between British feminism and class politics in a capitalist society.
Author: Jonathan Moss Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526124904 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
This book revisits women’s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women’s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985.
Author: Penny A. Weiss Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 147983730X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 716
Book Description
This book is a collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. The manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering issues from political participation, education, religion and work to reproduction, violence, racism and environmentalism, the manifestos challenge definitions of gender and feminist movements.
Author: Chris Rojek Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135078807 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
The first book to examine the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power. The will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new types of dependency, control and domination.
Author: Kaye Hargreaves Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
Monograph on trends in the working conditions of woman workers and social implications of their labour force participation in Australia - reviews women's rights (incl. Right to work), sex discrimination (referring to ILO Convention No. 111), migrant women, arrangement of working time, child care, trade union membership and trade unionization, etc., considers fatigue, mental stress and occupational health hazards and forecasts the role of women's movement in the 1980s.
Author: Miriam E. David Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1447328183 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher education, celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars. She provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering zeal and zest for knowledge. Looking at the changing zeitgeist, David contends that feminism has yet to have an enduring influence, despite how generations of women have felt empowered. She illustrates the power of patriarchal social relations and how everyday sexism or misogyny is keenly felt. This impassioned book asks whether a feminist-friendly future is possible, or indeed, desirable.
Author: Stephen Brooke Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199562547 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the last century and a half. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society.
Author: Shamim Meer Publisher: Oxfam ISBN: 9780855984168 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
This book brings together the voices of a variety of women on some of the critical issues of the times: women organising in their own communities, in trade unions and in political organisations, violence against women and personal struggles regarding relationships, lobola, lesbianism and abortion.
Author: Marjorie Mayo
Author: Suzanne Franzway
Author: George Stevenson
Author: Jonathan Moss
Author: Penny A. Weiss
Author: Chris Rojek
Author: Kaye Hargreaves
Author: Miriam E. David
Author: Stephen Brooke
Author: Shamim Meer