Contemporary feminist theory and activism : six global issues

Summary: "Wendy Lynne Lee's Contemporary Feminist Theory and Activism: Six Global Issues explores six issues that are vital to a vibrant and meaningful feminist movement. Among these are included: the economic disparity and entrenched gender inequality of global markets; the role played by technology in our conception of reproductive rights, sexual identity, and gender; the rise of religious fanaticism; and the relationship between our conceptions of gender, nonhuman animals, and the environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781551119045
ISBN: 1551119048
Physical Description: print
xi, 244 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244).

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Introduction: The Future(s) of Feminism -- II. Sexual Identities: Institutionalized Discrimination, Medical/Technological Possibility, and the (Slow) Death of Binary Nature -- III. Reproductive Technology and the Global Exploitation of Women's Sexuality -- IV. Economic Disparity and the Global Market: Institutionalized Inequality -- V. Culture Industry, the Conceptual Economy of Difference, and the Allure of Religion: Feminist Discourses of Resistance -- VI. Religious Fundamentalism,Terrorism, and the "New" Anti-Feminism -- VII. Ecological Feminism: A Critical Praxis for the Future as Now -- VIII. Epilogue: Life as Activism.