Margaret Walters - Feminism – A Very Short Introduction
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. 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. How much have women’s lives really changed? In the West, women still come up against the “glass ceiling” at work, with most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments–in, for example, Islam, Hinduism, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian sub-continent?
From the nice little paperback series by Oxford University Press, called “A Very Short Introduction..” forming useful primers into a great variety of topics.
Paperback, 159 pages, published in 2005.
€9.50

Nick Aikens, Teresa Grandes, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (Eds,) - The Long 1980s
This nicely designed hardcover book assesses the 1980s as a turning point in political action: identity politics, political shifts, start of neoliberalism, R..(read more)
Publisher: Valiz / ISBN: 9789492095497
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '80s, Activism, Culture Theory, History, Politics.

Sandra Trienekens - Participatieve Kunst
In Dutch. Sandra Trienekens’ book is very suitable for use in education and broadens our view of the history of artistic research into the relationship be..(read more)
Publisher: V2 / ISBN: 9789082893526
Author: Sandra Trienekens
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art Theory, Community Art, Criticism, Politics, Sociology.

Pascal Gielen - Trust
Reflects on the increasing distrust in fellow human beings, governments and corporations. Highlights the importance of culture and the cultural commons for buil..(read more)
Publisher: Valiz / ISBN: 9789493246409
Author: Pascal Gielen
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Culture Theory, Politics, Sociology, Trust.
