Feminism: A Graphic Guide
Published on 8. August 2019
192 pages
978-1-78578-491-0 (ISBN)
Description
What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices?
In this unique, illustrated introduction, we'll explore the early history of conscious struggle against sexist oppression, through the modern "waves" of feminism, up to present-day conversations about MeToo, intersectional feminism, and women's rights in the Middle East. We'll look at critical theory, popular action and the social and cultural forces that affect attitudes toward gender, women's lives and the struggle for equality. And we'll hear about the contributions of pioneers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir and Kimberlé Crenshaw. As we'll see, feminism is at once global, local and individual.
Written by Cathia Jenainati with illustrations from Judy Groves and Jem Milton, Feminism: A Graphic Guide engages with the heated debates taking place in our homes, workplaces and public spaces -- and the work still to be done.
Written by Cathia Jenainati with illustrations from Judy Groves and Jem Milton, Feminism: A Graphic Guide engages with the heated debates taking place in our homes, workplaces and public spaces -- and the work still to be done.
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Cathia Jenainati is a Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the Lebanese American University.
Judy Groves is a painter and illustrator. She has illustrated ten Introducing Graphic Guides, including: Aristotle, Political Philosophy, and Wittgenstein. Judy illustrated the first edition of this book, and many of her images feature in this edition.
Jem Milton is a non-binary comic artist and illustrator based in Glasgow. They make comics about love, queerness and polyamory. Jem provided illustrations for all the new and updated pages in this edition.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- What is Feminism?
- Is Feminism Still Relevant?
- What is Patriarchy?
- Biology is Destiny
- Logic or Emotion?
- Early Modern Feminist Activity
- Reinterpreting the Bible
- First Political Action
- "To the Ladies"
- Early Perspectives
- The Age of Reason
- Social Planners
- Competing Perspectives
- The Rise of Individualism
- First Wave Feminism
- Remembering the Ladies
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- An Unconventional Life
- Against Rousseau
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Divine Right of Husbands
- The Grimké Sisters
- The "Cult of Domesticity", 1820-80
- Rules of Conduct for Men and Women
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- Theory and Practice
- A Panoply of Servants
- "Man" or "Person"?
- Caroline Norton
- Coverture
- The Infant Custody Act
- The Matrimonial Causes Act
- Women's Suffrage in Australia
- Early Feminist Activity in Canada
- Seneca Falls Convention, New York 1848
- A Declaration of Independence
- The Advent of the Bloomers
- The 1850s in the USA
- The International Council of Women
- The 1850s in Britain
- Barbara Bodichon
- Langham Place
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- The Woman's Social and Political Union
- Militant Suffragettes
- Suffrage Gains Momentum
- Against Suffrage
- The First Backlash
- Feminism = Lesbianism?
- Educated but Under-employed
- The Lost Sex
- Virginia Woolf
- A Room of One's Own
- Guineas and Locks
- "I have no country ."
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Existence Precedes Essence
- Second Wave Feminism: Milestones
- The Women's Liberation Movement
- The Personal is Political
- Betty Friedan
- The Feminine Mystique
- Motherhood Before Career?
- Consciousness-raising
- Critiques of Consciousness-raising
- Varieties of Feminisms
- Socialist Feminism
- Traditional Marxist Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Ecofeminism
- Psychoanalytic Feminism
- Postfeminism
- Protest and Revolt: Beauty Pageants
- Germaine Greer
- Shulamith Firestone
- Reproduction, not Production
- Consuming for Capitalism
- Kate Millett
- The Sex/Gender Hierarchy
- Misogyny in Literature
- Ann Oakley
- Subject Women
- Gynocriticism
- Psychoanalysis and Feminist Thought
- "The Reproduction of Mothering"
- Mermaids and Minotaurs
- Separation from the Mother
- Adrienne Rich
- Gyn/Ecology
- The 1980s
- Black Women's Experience of Feminism
- Early Expressions of Black Feminism
- A'n't I a Woman?
- Frances Harper
- The Combahee River Collective
- Black Feminist Activity in Britain
- Gynocentricism and Black Feminism
- bell hooks
- Alice Walker
- Popular Fiction in the 1980s
- The Power of Romance
- Feminism and Pornography
- Feminism and the Body
- The Third Wave
- A Crisis of Victimization?
- Deconstructive Feminism
- Girl Power
- Third Wave Feminism and Pop Culture
- Emerging Concerns
- Feminism and Transgender Identity
- Feminism and Media Activism
- Intersectionality
- Neoliberal Feminism
- Feminist Activity in Developing Countries
- The Subaltern
- Challenging Rituals
- Arab Feminism and Social Media
- The Girl in the Blue Bra
- What is Feminism?
- Milestones
- Further Reading
- About the Author and Artists
- Author's Acknowledgements
- Index
