Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference - Softcover

Weedon, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631198245 ISBN 13: 9780631198246

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference looks at the question of difference across the full spectrum of feminist theory from liberal, radical, lesbian and socialist theories to Black and post-colonial feminisms.

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Book Description:

This book looks at the question of difference across the full spectrum of feminist theory from liberal, radical, lesbian & socialist theories to Black & post-colonial feminism's.

From the Back Cover:

Difference is a key term in contemporary feminism. Since the 1700s women have been concerned with how they are seen as different from men and the social consequences of such assumed and actual differences. Whereas early second-wave feminism stressed women's shared oppression and sisterhood, more recent feminism has stressed difference - of class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and age. Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference looks at the question of difference across the full spectrum of feminist theory from liberal, radical, lesbian and socialist theories to Black and post-colonial feminisms. It relates feminist approaches to difference and diversity to the tendency within postmodernism to celebrate them often without due attention to power.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0631198245
• ISBN 13: 9780631198246
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232