Varieties of Feminist Liberalism
Varieties of Feminist Liberalism

Author: Amy R. Baehr

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780742512030

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The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are incompatible. Visit our website for sample chapters!

The Return of Feminist Liberalism
The Return of Feminist Liberalism

Author: Ruth Abbey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1317547950

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While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism's association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism. This book examines why, and in what ways, each of these theorists believes that liberalism offers the normative and political resources for the improvement of women's situations. It also brings out and tries to explain and evaluate the differences among them, notwithstanding their shared allegiance to liberalism. In so doing, the books goes to the heart of recent debates in feminist and political theory.

Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism
Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism

Author: C. Hay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1137003901

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In this book Hay argues that the moral and political frameworks of Kantianism and liberalism are indispensable for addressing the concerns of contemporary feminism. After defending the use of these frameworks for feminist purposes, Hay uses them to argue that people who are oppressed have an obligation to themselves to resist their own oppression.

Challenging Liberalism
Challenging Liberalism

Author: Lisa H. Schwartzman

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2007-05-02

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0271045272

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Questions about the relevance and value of various liberal concepts are at the heart of important debates among feminist philosophers and social theorists. Although many feminists invoke concepts such as rights, equality, autonomy, and freedom in arguments for liberation, some attempt to avoid them, noting that they can also reinforce and perpetuate oppressive social structures. In Challenging Liberalism Schwartzman explores the reasons why concepts such as rights and equality can sometimes reinforce oppression. She argues that certain forms of abstraction and individualism are central to liberal methodology and that these give rise to a number of problems. Drawing on the work of feminist moral, political, and legal theorists, she constructs an approach that employs these concepts, while viewing them from within a critique of social relations of power.

Varieties of Feminism
Varieties of Feminism

Author: Myra Ferree

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0804780528

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Varieties of Feminism investigates 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 good. Tracing the opportunities, constraints, and conflicts generated by using class struggle as the framework for gender mobilization—juxtaposing this with the liberal tradition where gender and race are more typically framed as similar—Ferree reveals how German feminists developed strategies and movement priorities quite different from those in the United States.

Universal Difference
Universal Difference

Author: K. Nash

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-10-29

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0230372252

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The author argues that rather than seeing liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity, as many contemporary feminists do, we should look at variations in liberalism, and in particular at its democratisation in the nineteenth century, and at how feminists have used liberalism as a resource. Liberalism is analysed using a post-structuralist theory of hegemony: texts of liberal political philosophy are deconstructed to show how the term 'women' is used as an 'undecidable' in the Derridean sense to produce the opposition between feminine private and masculine public spheres; these texts are then linked to liberal-democratic social and political practices, including feminism as a social movement.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 11 Volume Set
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 11 Volume Set

Author: George Ritzer

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2007-01-23

Total Pages: 6384

ISBN-13: 9781405124331

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Named a Best Reference Work for 2009 by Library Journal The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology is published in both print and online. Arranged across eleven volumes in A-Z format, it is the definitive reference source for students, researchers, and academics in the field. This ground-breaking project brings together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers. It provides: “This is an example of a reference book turned into an e-product intelligently and in a way that transcends the print.” – Library Journal An essential reference for expert and newcomer alike, with entries ranging from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics Provides clear, concise, expert definitions and explanations of the key concepts Presents materials that have historically defined the discipline, but also more recent developments, significantly updating the store of sociological knowledge Introduces sociological theories and research that have developed outside of the United States and Western Europe Offers sophisticated cross-referencing and search facilities Features a timeline, lexicon by subject area, bibliography, and index 11 Volumes www.sociologyencyclopedia.com Updating

Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920
Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920

Author: Suzanne M. Marilley

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780674954656

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In their struggle, these women developed three types of liberal arguments, each predominant during a different phase of the movement. The feminism of equal rights, which called for freedom through equality, emerged during the Jacksonian era to counter those opposed to women's public participation in antislavery reform. The feminism of fear, the defense of women's right to live free from fear of violent injury or death perpetrated particularly by drunken men, flourished after the Civil War.

Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence
Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence

Author: Robin West

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1786439697

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The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and queer feminist legal theories.

Social Reproduction
Social Reproduction

Author: Meg Luxton

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0773531033

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Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the theoretical framework provided by feminist analyses of social reproduction not only corrects the gender-blindness of most economic theories but suggests an alternative that places care-giving at its centre. In this illuminating study, they challenge feminist scholars to re-engage with materialism and political economy to engage with feminism.