Feminism - Marta Lamas

Feminism
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Autor: Marta Lamas

 Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137449863
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Oprawa: miękka
Stron: 190
Data wydania: 2014-09-01
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With the goal of opening up dialogue and debate, Feminism presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lamas covers topics such as the political development of the feminist movement, affirmative action in the workplace, conceptual advances in regard to gender, and the nuances of disagreements among feminists. Here in English for the first time, this work offers invaluable insight into the theoretical and political tensions that have shaped Mexican feminism and the world at large. "As Jean Franco remarks in the introduction to this extraordinary collection of essays, Marta Lamas 'remains required reading' for those wishing to understand the role of women in the project of 'redefining and promoting democracy' in the world. This translated collection of four of Lamas's key essays, many of which have been circulating for years throughout Latin America, particularly in her home nation of Mexico, provides English readers an essential if not classical set of insights into what Lamas calls the 'transmissions and retransmissions' of feminist thought that links psychoanalysis to Marxism and anthropology ... [The book] finally brings marginalized Latin American intellectualism north where it is sorely needed." - CHOICE "Anthropologist Marta Lamas's book is a compelling examination of a variety of theoretical debates among contemporary feminists around the globe. From her location as a scholar/activist within the women's movement in Mexico, she charts the evolution of her own intellectual/political journey over the past three decades. This text is a model for feminist theorists who are committed to similar self-reflections about a movement that has helped to transform both the academy and civil society." - Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Founding Director, Women's Research Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College, USA and past president of the National Women's Studies Association "Marta Lamas is a refreshing, incisive voice and the history she charts is a welcome and informative one. The English translation of Feminism poses questions and problems that remain points of contention in feminist work across institutions and social spaces. This will be a timely and useful resource for students and scholars interested in learning more about theoretical and political tensions that shaped late twentieth-century Mexican feminism." - Rosemary Hennessy, Director, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality and Professor, Department of English, Rice University, USA "Three main scholarly heritages - anthropology, feminism, and Marxism - overlap and inspire Lamas's approach in this veritable tour de force. This book takes up from the early days of women's consciousness-raising, to today's global feminist commitment, to human rights and a democratic praxis founded on inclusionary politics. A feminist in the trenches since the 1970s, Lamas offers new generations of students and scholars a highly accessible text that will persist, undoubtedly, as a required reference for years to come. This is a book you want to read, teach, and keep at hand." - Norma Klahn, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "Lamas gives us new forms of feminist theory and politics from the perspective of her own long-standing engagement with Mexican feminism. Here, we learn how terms like 'feminism,"gender,' 'sexual difference,' and 'essentialism' have been historically and locally inflected by mujerismo, sectarian discord, and Zapatista feminism, as well as by common struggles against the Catholic Church, the machismo of workers' parties, indigenismo movements on the left, and habits of political corruption that have encouraged rape and abuse. A profound reflection on the place of 'theory' in future iterations of feminist theory and political activism rounds out

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