Week 14 on Feminism

Week 14. (1) Feminism.

Clare Chambers, “Feminism,” Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, pp. 562-583

Andrew Heywood, “Feminism,” Political Ideologies, pp. 230-255

So you'd like to see a 21st-century (liberal) feminist outlook on the world...

Check out Ms. magazine.

So you'd like to see how social liberal/social democrat feminists grapple with the Hillary-or-Bernie? problem...

Check out this article in the New York Times.

So you'd like to learn about the history of feminism, mostly in the First World...

Check out "The F Word," dir. Adelin Gasana

So you'd like to learn about the history of feminism in the Third World, and how it was not necessarily just an import from European cultures...

Check out Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (1986)

So you'd like to see a reconstruction and assessment of four feminist ideologies: liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, and socialist feminism...

Check out Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature (Rowman & Littlefield, 1983)

So you'd like to see a reconstruction of black feminist thought...

Check out Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge, 2000)