Author: Sylviane Agacinski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231115667
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Agacinski's articulation of the theory of "parity" helped inspire a law that went into effect in May 2000 requiring France's political parties to fill 50 percent of the candidacies in every race with women. Agacinski's model of parity does not strive for the nebulous ideal of "equality" between the sexes; instead, it demands a concrete formula for political contests: an equal number of female and male candidates in every election. This theory that has sparked impassioned debate across France and around the globe.
Parity of the Sexes
Author: Sylviane Agacinski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231115667
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Agacinski's articulation of the theory of "parity" helped inspire a law that went into effect in May 2000 requiring France's political parties to fill 50 percent of the candidacies in every race with women. Agacinski's model of parity does not strive for the nebulous ideal of "equality" between the sexes; instead, it demands a concrete formula for political contests: an equal number of female and male candidates in every election. This theory that has sparked impassioned debate across France and around the globe.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231115667
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Agacinski's articulation of the theory of "parity" helped inspire a law that went into effect in May 2000 requiring France's political parties to fill 50 percent of the candidacies in every race with women. Agacinski's model of parity does not strive for the nebulous ideal of "equality" between the sexes; instead, it demands a concrete formula for political contests: an equal number of female and male candidates in every election. This theory that has sparked impassioned debate across France and around the globe.
Anthropologica
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Anthropologica
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA
Author: Donald G. Mathews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA is the most profound and sensitive discussion to date of the way in which women responded to feminism. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Mathews and De Hart explore the fate of the ERA in North Carolina--one of the three states targeted by both sides as essential to ratification--to reveal the dynamics that stunned supporters across America. The authors insightfully link public discourse and private feelings, placing arguments used throughout the nation in the personal contexts of women who pleaded their cases for and against equality. Beginning with a study of woman suffrage, the book shows how issues of sex, gender, race, and power remained potent weapons on the ERA battlefield. The ideas of such vocal opponents as Phyllis Schlafly and Senator Sam Ervin set the perfect stage for mothers to confess their terror at the violation of their daughters in a post-ERA world, while the prospect of losing ratification to this terror impelled supporters to shed the white gloves of genteel lobbying for the combat boots of political in-fighting. In the end, the efforts of ERA supporters could neither outweigh the symbolic actions of its opponents nor weaken the resistance of those same legislators to further federal guarantees of equality. Ultimately, opponents succeeded in making equality for women seem dangerous. In thus explaining the ERA controversy, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many meanings of feminism for the American people.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA is the most profound and sensitive discussion to date of the way in which women responded to feminism. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Mathews and De Hart explore the fate of the ERA in North Carolina--one of the three states targeted by both sides as essential to ratification--to reveal the dynamics that stunned supporters across America. The authors insightfully link public discourse and private feelings, placing arguments used throughout the nation in the personal contexts of women who pleaded their cases for and against equality. Beginning with a study of woman suffrage, the book shows how issues of sex, gender, race, and power remained potent weapons on the ERA battlefield. The ideas of such vocal opponents as Phyllis Schlafly and Senator Sam Ervin set the perfect stage for mothers to confess their terror at the violation of their daughters in a post-ERA world, while the prospect of losing ratification to this terror impelled supporters to shed the white gloves of genteel lobbying for the combat boots of political in-fighting. In the end, the efforts of ERA supporters could neither outweigh the symbolic actions of its opponents nor weaken the resistance of those same legislators to further federal guarantees of equality. Ultimately, opponents succeeded in making equality for women seem dangerous. In thus explaining the ERA controversy, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many meanings of feminism for the American people.
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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738169457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738169457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Politique des sexes
Author: Sylviane Agacinski
Publisher:
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Category : Gender identity
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
Propose une philosophie de la mixité qui rompt avec les modèles masculins et certains aspects du féminisme. Critiquant Simone de Beauvoir, l'auteur affirme l'urgence, pour les femmes, d'abandonner l'opposition entre "destin biologique" et "liberté".
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Category : Gender identity
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
Propose une philosophie de la mixité qui rompt avec les modèles masculins et certains aspects du féminisme. Critiquant Simone de Beauvoir, l'auteur affirme l'urgence, pour les femmes, d'abandonner l'opposition entre "destin biologique" et "liberté".
Sex, Sea, and Self
Author: Jacqueline Couti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800859945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by Black writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, making the analysis of some of these texts available to readers of English for the first time. This interdisciplinary study of female and male authors reconsiders their political strategies and the critical role of French creoles in the creation of their own history. This approach recalibrates overly simplistic understandings of the victimization and alienation of French Caribbean people. In the systems of cultural production under consideration, sexuality constitutes an instrument of political and cultural consciousness in the chaotic period between 1924 and 1948. Studying sexual imagery constructed around female bodies demonstrates the significance of agency and the legacy of the past in cultural resistance and political awareness. Sex, Sea, and Self particularly highlights Antillean women intellectuals' theoretical contributions to Caribbean critical theory. Therefore, this analysis illuminates debates on the multifaceted and conflicted relationships between France and its overseas departments and expands ideas of nationhood in the Black Atlantic and the Americas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800859945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by Black writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, making the analysis of some of these texts available to readers of English for the first time. This interdisciplinary study of female and male authors reconsiders their political strategies and the critical role of French creoles in the creation of their own history. This approach recalibrates overly simplistic understandings of the victimization and alienation of French Caribbean people. In the systems of cultural production under consideration, sexuality constitutes an instrument of political and cultural consciousness in the chaotic period between 1924 and 1948. Studying sexual imagery constructed around female bodies demonstrates the significance of agency and the legacy of the past in cultural resistance and political awareness. Sex, Sea, and Self particularly highlights Antillean women intellectuals' theoretical contributions to Caribbean critical theory. Therefore, this analysis illuminates debates on the multifaceted and conflicted relationships between France and its overseas departments and expands ideas of nationhood in the Black Atlantic and the Americas.
Femmes
Author: R. Celestin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9057005719
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9057005719
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Women and Citizenship
Author: St. Louis Marilyn Friedman Professor of Philosophy Washington University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198039077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women's citizenship in various parts of the world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198039077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women's citizenship in various parts of the world.
Women
Author: Roger Célestin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136648445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 2001, Women is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136648445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 2001, Women is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.