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American muslim women, religious authority, and activism
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- Hammer, Juliane
American muslim women, religious authority, and activism
The author describes the 2005 woman-led prayer in New York. Juliane Hammer uses this woman-led prayer as the historical focus for an analysis of gender discourses in American Muslim communities as reflected in the scholarly and nonfiction writings of American Muslim women authors.- Creator
- Hammer, Juliane
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Seizing the means of reproduction
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- Murphy, Michelle
Seizing the means of reproduction
In this book Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics.- Creator
- Murphy, Michelle
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Feminist rhetorical practices
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- Royster, Jacqueline Jones
- Kirsch, Gesa E.
- Bizzell, Patricia > (forew.)
Feminist rhetorical practices
The authors focus on the history of rhetoric, describe what makes research in rhetoric feminist and outline the major shifts in recent decades in rhetorical inquiry. Next to this, the authors argue that feminist rhetorical practices have shifted the landscape, and they create a topology for feminist rhetorical practices.- Creator
- Royster, Jacqueline Jones
- Kirsch, Gesa E.
- Bizzell, Patricia > (forew.)
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The paradox of gender equality
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- Goss, Kristin A.
The paradox of gender equality
Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their democratic participation, provided a dual platform for the expansion of women's policy agendas. As measured by women's groups' appearances before the U.S. Congress, women's collective political engagement continued to grow between 1920 and 1960—when many conventional accounts claim it declined—and declined after 1980, when it might have been expected to grow. .Goss suggests that ascriptive differences are not necessarily barriers to disadvantaged groups' capacity to be heard: that enhanced political inclusion does not necessarily lead to greater collective engagement: and that rights movements do not necessarily constitute the best way to understand the political participation of marginalized groups. She asks what women have gained—and perhaps lost—through expanded incorporation as well as whether single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century America.- Creator
- Goss, Kristin A.
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The new feminist agenda
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- Kunin, Madeleine M.
The new feminist agenda
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s.Decades later there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two-wage-earner family the norm. But combining a career and family turned out to be more complicated than expected. While women changed, social structures surrounding work and family remained static. Affordable and high-quality child care, paid family leave, and equal pay for equal work remain elusive for the vast majority of working women. In fact, the nation has fallen far behind other parts of the world on the gender-equity front. We lag behind more than seventy countries when it comes to the percentage of women holding elected federal offices. Only 17 percent of corporate boards include women members. And just 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by women. Looking back over five decades of advocacy, Kunin analyzes where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other countries, and charts the course for the next feminist revolution--one that mobilizes women, and men, to call for the kind of government and workplace policies that can improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.- Creator
- Kunin, Madeleine M.
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A strange stirring
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- Coontz, Stephanie
A strange stirring
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her book The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for “perky, attractive gal typists,” but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, This book illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.- Creator
- Coontz, Stephanie
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Women who opt out
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- Jones, Bernie D. > (ed.)
- Stone, Pamela
- Hernandez, Lisa Ackerly
- [et al.]
Women who opt out
In this book the authors ask whether the opting out assessment is an adequate explanation for women's decisions to leave the workforce. They also make an assessment of the race, class and gender axes to determine women's workplace participation, and the women who cannot afford to opt out or find it difficult to opt in. In the last part of this book the authors draw their conclusions and highlight an unexplored territory and point out topics for future research and policy.- Creator
- Jones, Bernie D. > (ed.)
- Stone, Pamela
- Hernandez, Lisa Ackerly
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Everywhere and nowhere
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- Reger, Jo
Everywhere and nowhere
Through an investigation of three feminist communitiesthe author shows how contemporary feminists react to the local environment currently shaping their identities, tactics, discourse, and relations with other feminist generations. By moving the analysis to the community level, Reger illustrates how feminism is simultaneously absent from the national, popular culture--'nowhere'--and diffused into the foundations of American culture--'everywhere.' Reger addresses some of the most debated topics concerning feminists in the twenty-first century. How do contemporary feminists think of the second-wave generation? Has contemporary feminism succeeded in addressing racism and classism, and created a more inclusive movement? How are contemporary feminists dealing with their legacy of gender, sex, and sexuality in a world of fluid identity and queer politics? The answers, she finds, vary by community.- Creator
- Reger, Jo
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Irresistible revolution
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- Vaid, Urvashi
Irresistible revolution
The LGBT movement is on one of the most activen and engaging social movements in the world. This book advocates for LGBT rights in the U.S. to aspire beyond the narrow framework of equality. It outlines a more substantive politics with race, class, and gender at its foundation, and suggests that such a politics will produce greater and more meaningful change for a larger number of people. The book turns an experienced and thoughtful lens onto many common controversies, rhetoric, and strategic questions that face contemporary social change movements: pursuit of broad or narrow agendas, integration of economic and racial justice, integrating sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights frameworks, the persistence of sexism, the dilemmas of bipartisanship, and the challenge of seeing beyond the short term to secure gains made for the long run.- Creator
- Vaid, Urvashi
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