{"product_id":"9780814774786-identity-politics-in-the-womens-movement","title":"Identity Politics in the Women's Movement","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn recent years, identity has come to be seen as a process rather than a fact or deterministic force. This book unpacks issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and age, contributing a melange of sharp, lively perspectives to current debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential collection that constructs the arguments of similarity and difference dividing and uniting women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent years, identity has come to be seen as a process rather than a fact or deterministic force. Yet, recognizable identity traits continue to draw people together and provide them with a sense of empowering commonality. Although the plasticity afforded identity has freed up rigid definitions and guidelines for affiliation, some believe that nebulous demarcations of identity may deprive women of a solid position from which to effectively contest centers of power.\u003cbr\u003e Bringing together articles by well-known authors and theorists such as Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Daphne Patai, Barbara Smith, Marilyn Frye, Shane Phelan, Leila J. Rupp, Hazel Carby, and Adrienne Rich with lesser-known writers and scholars, this broad-based anthology ranges widely from personal narratives to empirical research. The book unpacks issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and age, contributing a mélange of sharp, lively perspectives to current debate.\u003cbr\u003e In a postmodern era of feminism, how do women come to identify, organize and mobilize themselves within a complex global network of relationships? \u003ci\u003eIdentity Politics in the Women's Movement\u003c\/i\u003e offers critical examination of the inescapable role of identity in academic and activist feminism and the opportunities, challenges and conflicts identity politics pose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55211323097462,"sku":"9780814774786","price":130.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27809334.jpg?v=1738245273","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780814774786-identity-politics-in-the-womens-movement","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}