Research Catalog

Title

Feminism : transmissions and retransmissions / Marta Lamas ; translated by John Pluecker ; introduction by Jean Franco.

Author

Lamas, Marta, 1947-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Description

xxii, 168 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The book explores what has happened in Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. The essays compiled in this book seek to transmit and retransmit knowledge, reflections and experiences of feminists like Marta Lamas with the goal of opening up dialogue and debate to new generations. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, Marta Lamas has written four texts that present her work as a thinker and as an organizer: the political development of a wing of the movement, affirmative action in the workplace, conceptual advances in regards to gender, and disagreements among feminists. In regards to method, Lamas presents her reflections as a member of the feminist movement and pairs this history with her own theoretical analysis as a feminist anthropologist, keenly interested in social constructions of gender, sexuality and nation. The audience for the book would be a general feminist audience in addition to academic readers in anthropology, history, gender studies, sociology and Latin American studies"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Theory in the World

Uniform Title

Feminismo. English

Alternative Title

Feminismo.

Subject

• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
• Feminism
• Feminism > Mexico
• Women > Social conditions
• Feminism & feminist theory
• Society
• Women > Social conditions

Note

• Translated from the Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Theory in the world : a general introduction / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Translator's note / John Pluecker -- Introduction : thinking feminism from Mexico / Jean Franco -- From protests to proposals : scenes from a feminist process -- The refusal of traditional politics -- The crisis facing feminist politics -- The political rearticulation of the movement -- The temptation of politics -- A provisional balance -- Equal opportunity and Affirmative Action in the workplace -- The theoretical perspective for approaching the question -- The predecessors of Affirmative Action -- Sexual discrimination and gender -- Equality of treatment or equality of opportunity? -- Equal opportunity programs in the workplace : the rejection of quotas and the acceptance of Affirmative Action -- Experiences of selected countries -- Conclusion : equity is good for everyone -- Examination of Mexico -- Gender : some conceptual and theoretical clarifications -- Feminisms : disagreements and arguments -- The function of arrogance -- The place of theory -- From discord to debate.

ISBN

• 9780230105089 (hardback)
• 0230105084 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2010042328

OCLC

657600114

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library