| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introductory Reflections; 1. Love and Injustice in Families; 2. Glancing at Pornography: Recognizing Men; 3. Cyborgean Motherhood and Abortion; 4. A Genealogy of Individualism; 5. Agency and Politics in a Postfeminist Decade; Epilogue: Engaging on a Postfeminist Frontier; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of social transformation resulting from an ""unmooring"" of women, men, and children from the nuclear family, gender relations having replaced economic relations as the primary site of social tension and change in our lives. The feminist movement has evolved, according to Mann, into a popularly based postfeminist struggle to reconstruct relationships between women and men within everyday contexts of work, family, education, and politics. Mann formulates a ""postmodern"" theory of political agency, utilizing it to explain political events s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-244) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Gender identity -- Philosophy
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Feminist theory
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Gender identity -- Philosophy
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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Feminisme.
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Vrouwen.
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Gelijke behandeling.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816684236 |
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0816684235 |
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