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This book examines the important aspects of Feminist Theories—Liberal, Marxist, Socialist, Radical, Cultural, Gyno-centric, Psychoanalytic, and Post-modern. It discusses at length the dialogue among these different types of feminisms as well as the critique of some feminist theories by other theories.
It addresses important issues like the contested notion of women’s rights, labour, sexuality, love, hetro-normativity, race and class. It also covers a ...
In everyday life we are taught the gender and sexuality is biological. Such construction of the biological nature of gender and sexuality neglects the power relation involved in both. Once such power relations are brought to the forefront, the nature of “gender†and “sexuality†reveal themselves as cultural constructs. Power creates and normalizes a set of human gender and sexual behavior as “normal†thereby also crating another set as ...
In the 1960s and 70s a diverse group of political and cultural movements which included women’s right to control her reproductive power, the politicization of domestic violence via State intervention, the incorporation of special job allocation for women, the establishment of welfare policies by the liberal State for single mothers, and other related rights, came under the umbrella phrase, “Second Wave Feminism.†...
Since the publication of Freud essays, “Femininity†and “Feminine Sexualityâ€, there has been an interest hitherto unknown in the psycho-analytic community, a question about the feminine subjectivity, self, and sexuality. According to Freud the foundation of gendered identity is the castration complex. Since the publication of the above essays the question that raged in the psycho-analytic community, is this: if the fear of castration leads one to adopt a ...