Women Imagine Change

ISBN 10: 0415915317 / ISBN 13: 9780415915311

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women Imagine Change
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415915317
• ISBN 13: 9780415915311
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked struggles to control their labor and education; their work reshaping representations of gender; and their varied translations of knowledge into power. Extensive introductions combine a broad theoretical perspective on gender and resistance with vivid biographical context.

Not only do the writings show women's resistance from an historical perspective; they also offer crucial insight into questions women are posing today about the relationships between their own power, the power of the various groups to which they belong, and the larger systems of power they confront in the world around them.

About the Author

Eugenia C. DeLamotte is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Her publications include Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic (1990). Natania Meeker is a doctoral candidate at Duke University and has published on feminist theory. University. Jean F. O'Barr is the Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. Her many books include the edited collection Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).