Feminism: A Very Short Introduction - M. Walters
Feminism: A Very Short Introduction - M. Walters This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the…
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction - M. Walters
This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries. How much have women's lives really changed? Walters examines the difficulties and inequities that women still face, more than forty years after the new wave of 1960s feminism--difficulties, particularly, in combining domesticity, motherhood and work outside the home.
What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? In the West, women still come up against the glass ceiling at work, with most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic