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 \nWhat is Patriarchy?  \nBiology is Destiny  \nLogic or Emotion?  \nEarly Modern Feminist Activity  \nReinterpreting the Bible  \nFirst Political Action  \n“To the Ladies”  \nEarly Perspectives  \nThe Age of Reason  \nSocial Planners  \nCompeting Perspectives  \nThe Rise of Individualism  \nFirst Wave Feminism  \nRemembering the Ladies  \nMary Wollstonecraft  \nAn Unconventional Life  \nAgainst Rousseau  \nSense and Sensibility  \nThe Divine Right of Husbands The Grimké Sisters The “Cult of Domesticity”, 1820–80  \nRules of Conduct for Men and Women  \nHarriet Taylor Mill  \nTheory and Practice  \nA Panoply of Servants  \n“Man” or “Person”?  \nCaroline Norton  \nCoverture  \nThe Infant Custody Act  \nThe Matrimonial Causes Act  \nCatherine Helen Spence  \nSeneca Falls Convention, New York 1848 A Declaration of Independence The Advent of the Bloomers The 1850s in the USA The International Council of Women  \nThe 1850s in Britain Barbara Bodichon Langham Place Emmeline Pankhurst  \nThe Woman’s Social and Political Union  \nMilitant Suffragettes Women’s Suffrage in Australia Suffrage Gains Momentum Against Suffrage  \nThe First Backlash Feminism = Lesbianism? Educated but Under-employed The Lost Sex  \nVirginia Woolf A Room ofOne ’s Own Guineas and Locks“I have no country …”Simone de Beauvoir  \nExistence Precedes Essence Second Wave Feminism The Women’s Liberation Movement  \nThe Personal is Political The Seven Demands ofthe WLM Betty Friedan  \nThe Feminine Mystique Motherhood Before Career? The Feminist Mystique C-R and Rap  \nVarieties of Feminisms Socialist Feminism Traditional Marxist Feminism  \nRadical Feminism Ecofeminism Psychoanalytic Feminism Postfeminism  \nProtest and Revolt A Black Miss America Germaine Greer  \nShulamith Firestone Reproduction, not Production Consuming for Capitalism Kate Millet  \nThe Sex/Gender Hierarchy Misogyny in Literature Ann Oakley  \nSubject Women Gynocriticism  \nPsychoanalysis and Feminist Thought“The Reproduction of Mothering”Mermaids and Minotaurs Separation from the Mother Adrienne Rich  \nGyn/Ecology The 1980s  \nBlack Women’s Experience of Feminism Early Expressions of Black Feminism A’n’t I a Woman?  \nFrances Harper  \nThe Combahee River Collective Gynocentricism and Black Feminism bell hooks  \nAlice Walker  \nPopular Fiction in the 1980s The Power of Romance Feminism and Pornography  \nFeminism and the Body The Beauty Myth  \nThe Grotesque  \nFeminism and the Question of Gender Deconstructive Feminism Men Back at Centre Stage?  \nGirl Power  \nFeminism and the Developing World The Subaltern  \nChallenging Rituals What is Feminism?  \nFurther Reading  \nAbout the author and artist Acknowledgements Index  \nWhat is Feminism?  \nAny attempt to “introduce feminism” invariably faces numerous challenges. Where to start, who to include, what to leave out and when to stop are all important considerations. This book provides an overview of the development of feminist activism in the Anglo-speaking world. It specifically outlines feminist thought in Britain and the US, although it refers to international contexts where relevant.  \nThe book acknowledges and intends to celebrate the variety of feminist perspectives which have developed throughout women’s history, taking as its premise bell hooks’ famous definition.  \nIntroducing Feminism traces the historical and social development of this struggle.  \nWhat is Patriarchy?  \nOne starting po","cbCaidxDSSG1TIgW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidxDSSG1TIgW","pdf",54199046,282,"English","# What is Feminism?\n## What is Patriarchy?\n## Biology is Destiny\n## Logic or Emotion?\n## Early Modern Feminist Activity\n## Reinterpreting the Bible\n## First Political Action\n## “To the Ladies”\n## Early Perspectives\n## The Age of Reason\n## Social Planners\n## Competing Perspectives\n## The Rise of Individualism\n## First Wave Feminism\n## Remembering the Ladies\n## Mary Wollstonecraft\n## An Unconventional Life\n## Against Rousseau\n## Sense and Sensibility\n## Reproduction, not Production\n## Varieties of Feminisms","[{\"question\":\"What does the book focus on when introducing feminism?\",\"answer\":\"It examines where to start, who to include, what to leave out, and when to stop, alongside how feminist activism developed historically and socially.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book treat feminist thought and activism?\",\"answer\":\"It provides an overview of feminist activism in the Anglo-speaking world and outlines feminist thought in Britain and the US, with international references where relevant.\"},{\"question\":\"What perspective does the book use to frame the variety of feminist viewpoints?\",\"answer\":\"It celebrates the diversity of feminist perspectives developed throughout women’s history, taking bell hooks’ definition as its guiding premise.\"}]","Introducing Feminism - overview of feminist activism | PDF",1789776503,434]