Radical Feminism Today offers a timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as `feminism′ and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of `women′, `gender′, `difference′ or `race/gender/class′. She challenges some of the most widely accepted ideas about feminism and in doing so opens up a number of hitheto closed debates, allowing for the possibility of moving those debates further.
Table of Content
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING FEMINISM
Defining Feminism
Ideology
Justifying Domination
Ideology
`Enabling′ and Disguising Domination
PART TWO: MISUNDERSTANDING FEMINISM
Feminism Undefined
Other Definitions
`Difference′
Differences among Women
What Does It Mean to Call Feminism `White and Middle-Class′?
Masculinity and Dehumanization
About the author
Dr Denise Thompson, BA (Hons), Ph D UNSW, is a Research Associate and has worked at SPRC since 1996. She has worked on a number of research projects, including: the ENACT evaluation framework for the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998
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