Feminism: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Feminism: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192805102

ISBN-10: 019280510X

ISBN-13: 9780192805102

Edition: 2005

Authors: Margaret Walters

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This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries. Walters examines the difficulties and inequities that women still face, more than forty years after the "new wave" of 1960s feminism--difficulties, particularly, in combining domesticity, motherhood and work outside the home. How much have women's lives really changed? In the West, women still come up against the "glass ceiling" at work, with most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English




The religious roots of feminism



The beginning of secular feminism



The 18th century : Amazons of the pen



The early 19th century : reforming women



The late 19th century : campaigning women



Fighting for the vote : suffragists



Fighting for the vote : suffragettes



Early 20th-century feminism



Second-wave feminism : the late 20th century



Feminists across the world