What is feminism? - Softcover

Mitchell, Juliet; Cott, Nancy F.; Oakley, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631148434 ISBN 13: 9780631148432

Publisher: B. Blackwell, 1986

Synopsis

This study contains essays covering health, motherhood, child abuse, social welfare and the law. The book also features, besides some recent work on health, on social policy and on law, theoretical discussions by Hilary Rose, Rosalind Delmar and Juliet Mitchell.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In this historical overview of feminism, Mitchell (Psychoanalysis and Feminism and Oakley (Woman's Work offer essays by 11 contributors that ably discuss various feminist issues, including child abuse and neglect, welfare and other economic matters, labor movements of the past and present, sexual harassment, medicine and motherhood. Comparisons are made between the women's movements of the 19th and 20th centuries; and in her essay, Oakley maintains that feminists never put motherhood in question but still see the problem of the status of women in society as a matter that lies in the arena of careers and education. This is a dense book that provides an extensive summation of feminism's roots and future possibilities.
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About this edition

• Publisher: B. Blackwell
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0631148434
• ISBN 13: 9780631148432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252