DANGEROUS IDEAS

ISBN: 9781922064943 Géneros: JFFK Sinópsis: Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love politics and performance joy and anguish in a collection of essays focused on the history and politics of the Women’s Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots Women’s Studies in Australia and around the worldThese are serious matters they are about tectonic changes in people’s lives and ideas in the late twentieth century too little remembered or understood any longer ‘Feminism’ this book suggests ‘is always multiple and various fluid and changing defying efforts at definition characterisation periodisation’ Nevertheless Dangerous Ideas tackles some hard questions How did Women’s Liberation begin What held this transformative movement together Would it bring about the death of the family Was it reorganising the labour market Revolutionising human reproduction How could Women’s Studies exist in patriarchal universities Could feminism change the paradigms governing the world of learning In the United States In Russia In the People’s Republic of ChinaIt is great fun too This book tells of Hobart’s hilarious Feminist Food Guide of an outburst of creative energies among feminists – women on top behaving badly of dreams and desires for an entirely different future And always unorthodox it finds hope and cheer in a history of the tampon