Feminism: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Walters, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019280510X ISBN 13: 9780192805102

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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?

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Walters is a freelance writer and reviewer. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement and the Sunday Times.

Review:

"An enjoyable read." * Rosie Blau, FT Magazine *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 019280510X
• ISBN 13: 9780192805102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159