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Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations
Ashleigh Barnes
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Description for Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations
Hardcover. Paper presented at the 'Feminisms of Discontent', held at the New Delhi, 2011. Editor(s): Barnes, Ashleigh. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
This edited volume focuses on a central plank of feminist politics, i.e. the struggle for equality. It attempts to find answers to the following questions: In what ways have feminist pursuits brought about more equality in women's lives? Or has the struggle for equality produced more law and invited greater regulation into women's lives rather than transformation? Are there other ways in which to engage equality and the state? It points out that as feminism has gone mainstream, feminist discontent seems to have succumbed to respectability and the reward of inclusion. Feminism as a grand theory is probably over. However, ... Read more
This edited volume focuses on a central plank of feminist politics, i.e. the struggle for equality. It attempts to find answers to the following questions: In what ways have feminist pursuits brought about more equality in women's lives? Or has the struggle for equality produced more law and invited greater regulation into women's lives rather than transformation? Are there other ways in which to engage equality and the state? It points out that as feminism has gone mainstream, feminist discontent seems to have succumbed to respectability and the reward of inclusion. Feminism as a grand theory is probably over. However, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199452941
SKU
V9780199452941
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About Ashleigh Barnes
Ashleigh Barnes is Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida Coastal Law School, University of Florida. Previously, she has been Assistant Professor of Law, Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat, India.
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