The University extends an invitation to all for the book launch of Understanding Feminism for Jane Mummery from the School of Behavioural & Social Sciences & Humanities. Published by Acumen, Understanding Feminism was co-authored with Peta Bowden from Murdoch University, and will be launched by Adjunct Professor Alice Mills.
- When: Thursday 22 October 2009, 6pm
- Where: Post Office Gallery, corner Lydiard & Sturt St
Understanding Feminism provides an accessible guide to one of the most important and contested movements in progressive modern thought. Presenting feminism as a dynamic, multi-faceted and adaptive movement that has evolved in response to the changing practical and theoretical problems faced by women, the authors take a problem-oriented approach that maps the complex strands of feminist thinking in relation to women’s struggles for equal recognition and rights, and freedom from oppressive constraints of sex, self-expression and autonomy. Each chapter focuses on a different cluster of concerns, demonstrating key moves in second-wave feminist thought, as well as some of the diversity in response-strategies that encompass both socio-economic and cultural-symbolic concerns. This approach not only shows how central feminist insights, theories and strategies emerge and re-emerge across different contexts, but makes clear that far from being “over”, feminism remains a vital response to the diverse issues that women (and men) find pressing and socially important.
Understanding Feminism is part of Acumen's Understanding Movements in Modern Thought series. This series provides accessible and lively introductions to major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment, revealing both the unity and the dissonances within that particular traditions or school.
Further author details, reviews and ordering are available from the Acumen website.
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