Geography and Feminist Theory: How Theory and Practice Relate - Rilegato

Pratt, Geraldine

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0748615695 ISBN 13: 9780748615698

Casa editrice: Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Riassunto

Working Feminism looks at key concepts and debates within feminist theory and puts them to work concretely in relation to the real problems faced by Filipina domestic workers and Asian youth in Canada. It draws to the fore the metaphorical and concrete geographies that lie implicit and underdeveloped within much feminist theory and suggests that a geographical imagination offers a means of reframing debates beyond polarised theoretical and political positions. Alternating between theoretical and empirical chapters, substantial and wide-ranging discussions of human rights, multiculturalism, transnationalism and feminist politics are brought to earth and -- by putting them into the context of individual predicaments -- to life. The empirical chapters build from a decade-long collaboration with an activist group -- the Philippine Women Centre -- in Vancouver, Canada. They demonstrate the fruits of a close and innovative engagement between poststructuralist feminist theory and participatory action research. The book demonstrates the immediate practicality of abstract debate, and works away at divisions between culturalist and materialist, theoretical and practical feminisms.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0748615695
• ISBN 13: 9780748615698
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 220