| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) |
| Contents |
Equality, difference, subordination : the politics of motherhood and women's citizenship / Carole Pateman -- Equality and sexual difference : amnesia in political thought / Adriana Cavarero -- The good-enough citizen : citizenship and independence / Susan James -- Defining feminism : a comparative historical approach / Karen Offen -- Equality and difference in National Socialist racism / Gisela Bock -- The power and powerlessness of women / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Female identity between sexuality and maternity / Silvia Vegetti Finzi -- The politics of paradigms : gender difference and gender disadvantage / Deborah L. Rhode -- Gender, subjectivity and language / Patrizi Violi -- On the female feminist subject, or : from "she-self' to 'she-other' / Rosi Braidotti -- Beyond equality : gender, justice and difference / Jane Flax |
| Summary |
Historically, as well as more recently, women's emancipation has been seen in two ways: sometimes as the "right to be equal" and sometimes as the "right to be different". This book deals with the meaning and use of these two concepts in the context of gender relations |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist theory -- Congresses
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Equality -- Congresses
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Sex differences (Psychology) -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Equality
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Feminist theory
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Sex differences (Psychology)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bock, Gisela
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James, Susan
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| ISBN |
0203982266 |
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9780203982266 |
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