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Fox-Genovese offers a family feminism, one that attempts to think about the flourishing of the vast majority of women for whom family matters matter. Includes interesting perspectives from women we don't always hear about in feminist scholarship.
Fox-Genovese offers a family feminism, one that attempts to think about the flourishing of the vast majority of women for whom family matters matter. Includes interesting perspectives from women we don't always hear about in feminist scholarship.
Fox-Genovese offers a family feminism, one that attempts to think about the flourishing of the vast majority of women for whom family matters matter. Includes interesting perspectives from women we don't always hear about in feminist scholarship.
Puts the "mommy wars" in different light. Should women want to be married and stay home with children or should women want to work? Fox-Genovese argues that most women fall somewhere in between and that the arguments waged between poles (which she sets as political conservatives vs. the "feminist movement") don't really take into account the realities of combining work and motherhood. She makes a good point that the political platform favored by feminist organizations are tailored to upper-incom...
Zero stars. That's right, zero!!!I guess I can start with why I checked this book out from the library in the first place: I thought this offering by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was going to be about intersectional feminism. L O L ! This passage is as close as it comes: "Both groups talk as if sexual freedom means the same thing for women of different classes, races, and ethnic groups--as if all women are vulnerable to the same kinds of abuse and as if all could afford the same sexual risks" (page 64...
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Holy hell, this book pissed me off so much I thought I'd end up burning it. States that feminists have lost touch with reality, essentially. I think the author is out of touch with reality - and perhaps humanity.Her thesis is that the reason the feminist movement in the US has not been able to achieve really any their goals since roughly the mid-70s is that the ideals and mores of feminism do not connect with the lives of average, everyday women across all socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic ba...
women's studies
I wanted more! I wish the stories had gone more in depth and maybe described how feminism didn't satisfy the women contributing.
I wanted more! I wish the stories had gone more in depth and maybe described how feminism didn't satisfy the women contributing.
