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New French Feminisms: An Anthology ("Discourses of Anti-Feminism and Feminism" begins on p. 3) » Read Now
by Elaine Marks, Isabelle De Courtivron. 279 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1 1 Discourses of Anti-Feminism and Feminism 3...Introductions I. Discourses of Anti-Feminism and Feminism II. Histories...Introduction I Discourses of Anti-Feminism and...
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Women Against Feminism: An Examination of Feminist Social Movements and Anti-Feminist Countermovements, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now
by Erin Steuter. 19 pgs.

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...the forces of the fundamentalist Christian movement and the New Right conservative movement to join the foray into anti-feminism. Mansbridge ( 1986 : 5) argues that for...
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Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement (Chap. 9 "Antifeminist Women on the Right: The Battle Over the ERA") » Read Now
by Sheila Tobias. 336 pgs.

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...Somehow, feminism survived the eighties, but not without having to fight brush fires throughout the Reagan-Bush presidencies, which cost the movement some of its breadth...
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European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History (Chap. 7 "Feminist Challenges and Antifeminist Responses, 1890-1914") » Read Now
by Karen Offen. 554 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in the smaller European nations and aspiring nation-states. Spanning 250 years, the...
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This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in the smaller European nations and aspiring nation-states. Spanning 250 years, the sweeping coverage extends from Portugal to Poland, Greece to Finland, Ireland to Ukraine, and Spain to Scandinavia -- as well as international and transnational feminist organizations.
The study has several objectives. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical record, it provides a comprehensive, comparative account of feminist developments in European societies, as well as a rereading of European history from a feminist perspective. By placing gender, or relations between women and men, at the center of European politics, where the author argues that it belongs but from which it has long been marginalized, the book aims to reconfigure our understanding of the European past and to make visible a long but neglected tradition of feminist thought and politics.
On another level, by providing a broad and accurate historical analysis, the book seeks to disentangle some misperceptions and to demystify some confusing contemporary debates about the Enlightenment, reason, nature, equality vs. difference, and public vs. private, among others. The author argues that historical feminisms offer us far more than logical paradoxes and contradictions; feminisms are about sexual politics, not philosophy. Feminist victories are not, strictly speaking, about getting the argument right, nor is gender merely "a useful category of analysis"; sexual difference lies at the heart of humanthought and politics.
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Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (Chap. 10 "Protofeminism and Antifeminism") » Read Now
by Christine Delphy, Diana Leonard. 237 pgs.

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Women's Political Voice: How Women Are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics ("Feminism, Antifeminism, Gender Consciousness, and Postfeminism" begins on p. 87) » Read Now
by Janet A. Flammang. 419 pgs.

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Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement across Three Decades of Change ("Organized Antifeminism" begins on p. 148) » Read Now
by Myra Marx Ferree, Beth B. Hess. 278 pgs.

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Controversy and Coalition is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s. This third edition is the only short and highly readable book on the important developments of the recent women's movement. This edition includes a new introduction by...
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Controversy and Coalition is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s. This third edition is the only short and highly readable book on the important developments of the recent women's movement. This edition includes a new introduction by the authors that cover the rise of global feminism.
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The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century (Discussion of anti-feminism begins on p. 215) » Read Now
by William H. Chafe. 247 pgs.

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When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about...
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When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about 20th-century women." But much has happened in the last two decades--both in terms of scholarship, and in the lives of American women. With The Paradox of Change, Chafe builds on his classic work, taking full account of the events and scholarship of the last fifteen years, as he extends his analysis into the 1990s with the rise of feminism and the New Right. Chafe conveys all the subtleties of women's paradoxical position in the United States today, showing how women have gradually entered more fully into economic and political life, but without attaining complete social equality or economic justice. Despite the gains achieved by feminist activists during the 1970s and 1980s, the tensions continued to abound between public and private roles, and the gap separating ideals of equal opportunity from the reality of economic discrimination widened. Women may have gained some new rights in the last two decades, but the feminization of poverty has also soared, with women constituting 70% of the adult poor. Moreover, a resurgence of conservatism, symbolized by the triumph of Phyllis Schlafly's anti-ERA coalition, has cast in doubt even some of the new rights of women, such as reproductive freedom. Chafe captures these complexities and contradictions with a lively combination of representative anecdotes and archival research, all backed up by statistical studies. As in The American Woman, Chafe once again examines "woman's place" throughout the 20th century, but now with a more nuanced and inclusive approach. There are insightful portraits of the continuities of women's political activism from the Progressive era through the New Deal; of the contradictory gains and losses of the World War II years; and of the various kinds of feminism that emerged out of the tumult of the 1960s. Not least, there are narratives of all the significant struggles in which women have engaged during these last ninety years--for child care, for abortion rights, and for a chance to have both a family and a career. The Paradox of Change is a wide-ranging history of 20th-century women, thoroughly researched and incisively argued. Anyone who wants to learn more about how women have shaped, and been shaped by, modern America will have to read this book.
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Pro-Family Organizations in Calgary, 1998: Beliefs, Interconnections and Allies, in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now
by Gillian Anderson, Tom Langford. 21 pgs.

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...countermovement. This is not to deny the anti-feminism of AFWUF and CFAC, but to argue that anti-feminism is not the defining element of...Lament for a "Patriarchy Lost"?:...
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I Enjoy Being a Girl: Collective Self-Esteem, Feminism, and Attitudes toward Women, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Christine A. Smith. 13 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library