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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carisa Renae Showden |
ISBN: | 9780816655953 0816655952 9780816655960 0816655960 |
OCLC Number: | 734083131 |
In: | Showden, Carisa R |
Notes: | Erscheint: Juni 2011. |
Description: | XVIII, 286 Seiten |
Contents: | AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Conceiving Agency: Autonomy, Freedom, and the Creation of the Embodied Subject2. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Intimate Partner Violence and the Agency in "Victim"3. Mum's the Word: Assisted Reproduction and the Ideology of Motherhood4. Working It: Prostitution and the Social Construction of Sexual Desire5. Agency and Feminist Politics: The Role of Democratic CoalitionsNotesBibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | Carisa R. Showden. |
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"Choices Women Make is one of the best treatments of agency and its relation to women and feminism that I have seen. It is a superb book." -Kathryn Abrams, University of California, Berkeley "In this work Carisa R. Showden accomplishes an unusual feat for a political theorist: combining theoretical and empirical analyses. By interweaving both elements she is able to present a distinctive and persuasive argument." -Susan Hekman, University of Texas, Arlington Read more...
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