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Becoming Feminist: Narratives and Memories (Citizenship, Gender and Diversity)
Carly Guest
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Description for Becoming Feminist: Narratives and Memories (Citizenship, Gender and Diversity)
Hardcover. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 251 pages, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specific and particular practices of 'becoming feminist' via a series of accessible case studies. Adopting a theoretical and methodological focus on narrative and memory, this original and absorbing work analyses the various and complex ways in which feminism and its histories are received and processed by some feminist women today. Its focus on the specificity of experience disrupts overarching narratives of feminism and its histories, whilst acknowledging that such narratives are often used to sustain, defend and maintain ... Read more
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specific and particular practices of 'becoming feminist' via a series of accessible case studies. Adopting a theoretical and methodological focus on narrative and memory, this original and absorbing work analyses the various and complex ways in which feminism and its histories are received and processed by some feminist women today. Its focus on the specificity of experience disrupts overarching narratives of feminism and its histories, whilst acknowledging that such narratives are often used to sustain, defend and maintain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137531803
SKU
V9781137531803
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About Carly Guest
Carly Guest is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Middlesex University, UK.
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