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Author Redfern, Catherine

Title Reclaiming the F word : the new feminist movement / Catherine Redfern & Kristin Aune
Published London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Liberated bodies; 2 Sexual freedom and choice; 3 An end to violence against women; 4 Equality at work and home; 5 Politics and religion transformed; 6 Popular culture free from sexism; 7 Feminism reclaimed; Appendix: survey results; Notes; Further reading; Index
Summary In today's 'post-feminist' society, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the turn of the millennium, a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions and assert a vibrant new agenda. Reclaiming the F Word reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women's lives today. From cosmetic surgery to celebrity culture and parenting to politics, from rape to religion and sex to singleness, this groundbreaking book reveals the seven vital issues at stake for today's feminists, and calls a new generat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminism.
Women -- Social conditions -- 21st century
feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminism
Women -- Social conditions
Form Electronic book
Author Aune, Kristin
ISBN 9781848133969
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9781848133945
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9781848133952
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