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Choices Women Make
Carisa Showden
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Description for Choices Women Make
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Women’s agency: Is it a matter of an individual’s capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices—specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work.
In Showden’s analysis, women’s agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deployment of agency, illustrating how it plays out in the messy workings of imperfect lives. ... Read more
Women’s agency: Is it a matter of an individual’s capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices—specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work.
In Showden’s analysis, women’s agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deployment of agency, illustrating how it plays out in the messy workings of imperfect lives. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816655960
SKU
V9780816655960
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About Carisa Showden
Carisa R. Showden is assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Reviews for Choices Women Make
"Choices Women Make is one of the best treatments of agency and its relation to women and feminism that I have seen. It is a superb book." —Kathryn Abrams, University of California, Berkeley "In this work Carisa R. Showden accomplishes an unusual feat for a political theorist: combining theoretical and empirical analyses. By interweaving both elements she is able to ... Read more