Varieties of Feminism German Gender Politics in Global Perspective

Name: Varieties of Feminism German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
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ISBN: 9780804757607

ISBN-10: 0804757607

ISBN-13: 9780804757607

Edition: 2012

Authors: Myra Ferree

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Varieties of Feminisminvestigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both conservative Christian and social democratic principles framing the feminist discourses and movement goals, which in turn shape public policy gains, Germany provides a tantalizing case study of gender politics done differently.The German feminist trajectory reflects new political opportunities created first by national reunification and later, by European Union integration, as well as by historically established assumptions about social justice, family values, and state responsibility for the common…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Myra Marx Ferreeis professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the co-author ofShaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States.



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



Practical Theory and the Politics of Gender



Creating Women Citizens: National Frameworks for Gender Equality and Self-determination, 1848-1968



Women Themselves Will Decide: Autonomous Feminist Mobilization, 1968-1978



Women Help Women: The Women's Project Movement, 1975-1985



We Want Half the Power: Feminists and Political Institutions, 1982-1990



You Can't Make a State Without Women: German Unification, 1990-1995



Kissing the Frog? Butler, Beijing, and Brussels Remake Gender Relations, 1995-2005



Feminism, Families, and the Future: Practical Theory and Global Gender Politics in the Twenty-first Century


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