Sexism And The System

Author : Betty A. Reardon
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603481
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexism and the War System written by Betty A. Reardon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work integrates feminist scholarship with peace research to draw attention to the fundamental relationship between sexism and militarism. The author sees an unhealthy imbalance of male principles in modern society, leading to war, aggression, greed, and other embodiments of masculinity.

Author : Judith Orr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexism and the System written by Judith Orr and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Orr traces the roots of women's oppression and shows why the way in which society is organised continues to leave most ordinary women - and men - losing out.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588371
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism Is for Everybody written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

Author : Kate Manne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190605006
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down Girl written by Kate Manne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women who challenge male dominance. And it's compatible with rewarding "the good ones," and singling out other women to serve as warnings to those who are out of order. It's also common for women to serve as scapegoats, be burned as witches, and treated as pariahs. Manne examines recent and current events such as the Isla Vista killings by Elliot Rodger, the case of the convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, who preyed on African-American women as a police officer in Oklahoma City, Rush Limbaugh's diatribe against Sandra Fluke, and the "misogyny speech" of Julia Gillard, then Prime Minister of Australia, which went viral on YouTube. The book shows how these events, among others, set the stage for the 2016 US presidential election. Not only was the misogyny leveled against Hillary Clinton predictable in both quantity and quality, Manne argues it was predictable that many people would be prepared to forgive and forget regarding Donald Trump's history of sexual assault and harassment. For this, Manne argues, is misogyny's oft-overlooked and equally pernicious underbelly: exonerating or showing "himpathy" for the comparatively privileged men who dominate, threaten, and silence women. l

Author : Laura Bates
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250067936
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Sexism written by Laura Bates and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A different version of this book was published in Great Britain in 2014 by Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., a CBS Company"--Colophon.

Author : Joan Smith
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313263310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism, Sexism, and the World-System written by Joan Smith and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long overdue addition to a series of books and edited collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System. These 12 `theoretically informed case studies' from a 1987 conference add considerable insight to the heavy emphasis of the World-Systems approaches on macroeconomic determinism with the inclusion of ideological and cultural factors. Most cases address how capital uses social categories to cheapen industrial labor costs in Asia and the US. Two illuminating chapters analyze the `minoritization of immigrants' and variations in masculinity norms as aspects of this labor cheapening process. Choice A collection of papers presented at the Eleventh Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, this volume illustrates the degree to which fundamental processes of the world-system entail racist and sexist practices. The contributors have taken as their focus the attempt to both explain--in social, political, or historical terms--the pervasiveness of racism and sexism and trace the relationship between the two and the organization of the contemporary political economy. Taken together, their papers offer a more coherent treatment of the problem than has heretofore been available. By integrating an understanding of racial and sexual oppression with that of other processes that constitute the world-economy they offer new insights into the workings of the world-system and new hope for concerted efforts to eliminate racism and sexism. Many of the essays included here take the form of theoretically informed case studies. Detailed historical works explore such issues as labor force formation in the New York garment industry in the late 19th and early 20th century and competition in the world textile industry in the latter half of the 1880s. A critical analysis of the construction of census categories and an examination of the myths of differential ethnic success provide real-world examples of discrimination and its effects. A number of papers focus on the implications of our understanding of racial and sexual oppression for political struggle, while others assess the impact of women's exclusion from the workforce on power relationships in the home. Two major theoretical pieces address the issues in more general terms, emphasizing the circumstances under which racism and sexism are created and recreated in various contexts. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a necessary and enlightening re-examination of the role of race and gender in the world-economy.

Author : Jacquelyn W. White
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN 13 : 9781557986177
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Society, and Feminism written by Jacquelyn W. White and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Top feminist scholars apply a feminist lens to the ways American society defines and shapes women's sexuality. Sexuality, while experienced at the individual level, is a social phenomenon: Its meaning is dynamic and emerges from the social context. Power and politics tend to dictate what sexual attitudes and behaviors are considered normal and typical for girls and women, frequently with negative consequences for women's well-being and the well-being of society as a whole. Here is an alternative, more positive approach to understanding an important area of behavior."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David Benatar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470674466
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Sexism written by David Benatar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the manifestation of sexism against women is widely acknowledged, few people take seriously the idea that males are also the victims of many and quite serious forms of sex discrimination. So unrecognized is this form of sexism that the mere mention of it will be laughable to some. Yet women are typically exempt from military conscription even where men are forced into battle and risk injury, emotional repercussions, and death. Males are more often victims of violent crime, as well as of legalized violence such as corporal punishment. Sexual assault of males is often taken less seriously. Fathers are less likely to win custody of their children following divorce. In this book, philosophy professor David Benatar provides details of these and other examples of what he calls the “second sexism.” He discusses what sexism is, responds to the objections of those who would deny that there is a second sexism, and shows how ignorance of or flippancy about discrimination against males undermines the fight against sex discrimination more generally.

Author : Cordelia Fine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340244
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference written by Cordelia Fine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.

Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in Sexist Society written by Vivian Gornick and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1972 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an anthology of articles written by some 30 female scholars and writers. Each woman draws upon mastery of her discipline and on a commitment to eliminating the social and personal costs of sexism; and also the arguments from current social customs and "Nature" that the editors feel lock both men and women into life-denying stereotypes of masculinity and femininity.