Women, Social Change, and Activism (eBook)

Then and Now

Dawn Hutchinson, Lori Underwood (Herausgeber)

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2018
110 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7426-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book represents the proceedings from the third annual conference on the Global Status of Women and Girls held at Christopher Newport University in March 2018, sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities. The theme for the interdisciplinary conference was Women, Social Change, and Activism: Then and Now.

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Through the study of local and global activism, Women, Social Change and Activism: Then and Now engages scholars interested in the artistic, economic, educational, ethical, historical, literary, philosophical, political, psychological, religious, and social dimensions of women's lives and resistance. Through an interdisciplinary inquiry of past and present dilemmas that women and girls have faced globally, this book offers a variety of insights into multicultural issues even outside of the gender studies field.

Autor

Dawn Hutchinson is senior lecturer of philosophy and religion at Christopher Newport University.Lori Underwood is professor of philosophy and dean of the College of Arts & Humanities at Christopher Newport University.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Rebecca Irons, “State Silencing and Women’s Reproductive Health in Peru: Past Sterilization and Contemporary Concerns”Chapter 2: Carley Petersen Durden, “Proscripted, Prescripted or Unscripted? Authoring Melania Trump’s FLOTUS”Chapter 3: Christine L. Murphy, “Buddhism, Nationalism, and Gendercide: The Situation of the Rohingya Today”Chapter 4: Molly Kelly, “Strong “For a Girl”: Sports Science, Femininity, and Athletic Gatekeepers of Gender”Chapter 5: Dawn Hutchinson, “Ecofeminism: Global Advocacy for the Earth”Chapter 6: Ololade Faniyi, “A Discussion on African Feminisms as a Reaction Against Western-Oriented Feminism: Reviewing Darko’s Beyond the Horizon”Chapter 7: Paula Talero Alverez, “Resisting the Dichotomy Victim vs Agent: Theorizing Young Women’s Agency”Chapter 8: Liu Tingting, “Split Subjectivity of Female Migrants Born in the 1990s in China”Chapter 9: Emily Bertrand, “The Glass Slipper—One Size Fits All”Chapter 10: Diana Moore, “Transnational Women and Philanthropic Networks in Italian Unification and State Building”

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: Paula Talero Alvarez, Emily Bertrand, Carley Petersen Durden, Dawn Hutchinson, Rebecca Irons, Molly Kelly, Christine L. Murphy, Liu Tingting, Lori Underwood
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: African feminism • Chinese female migrants • Christopher Newport University • Environmental politics • Feminism • Gender • gender & identity • gender & sports • Global Status of Women and Girls • Political Science • Reproductive Health • women in politics
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7426-2 / 1498574262
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7426-6 / 9781498574266