Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone

by Laura L. Finley, Emily Reynolds Stringer

Overview

This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them.

Beyond Burbaning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone is an antidote to the poison of shock jocks who caricature the women's movement as a radical fringe of man-haters and paint activists as spoiled hooligans. Two real-life feminist activists, Laura Finley and Emily Stringer focus on the mainstream of everyday feminism, explaining what feminism is really all about and fanning out a spectrum of simple, imaginative, user-friendly ways in which ordinary readers can promote gender equality and social equity in their own lives and in the world around them.

Beyond Burbaning Bras taps the life stories and first-person accounts of 50 ordinary individuals of every age, sex, sexuality, class, nationality, race, ethnicity, and learning style. All of them tell how they found within themselves the courage to take a stand on the front lines of feminist activism, whether in subtle private ways or in life-changing public ways. After a survey of the history of feminism in the United States, the authors and contributors show in successive chapters how feminism today meshes with other forms of activism relating to the workplace, sexual violence, the environment, politics, human bodies, the arts, youth, empowerment, and mothering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313365805
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/09/2010
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Laura Finley is assistant professor of sociology and criminology at Barry University, Miami, FL, and director of the Center for Living and Teaching Peace in Miami, FL.

Emily Reynolds Stringer is the founding director of Feeling Foody, an organization for developing nutritional awareness in children and adolescents, and Creating a Planet, an exchange program for community art in the United States, Guatemala, and Thailand.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology: Milestones of Feminist Activism in American History
Chapter 1 The First Wave
Chapter 2 The Second Wave
Chapter 3 The Third Wave
Chapter 4 The Personal Is Political: Feminist Activism in Politics
Chapter 5 Class Matters: Feminist Activism in Economics, the Workplace, and to Eradicate Poverty
Chapter 6 Feminist Activism and Human Bodies
Chapter 7 Birthing New Activism: Feminist Mothering and Fathering
Chapter 8 Until the Violence Stops: Feminist Activism to End Violence against Women
Chapter 9 Love Your Mother: Feminist Activism for the Environment and Animal Welfare
Chapter 10 Creating a World We Love: Feminist Arts-Based Activism
Chapter 11 Feel Good: Feminist Activism for Empowerment
Chapter 12 Our Future: Feminist Activism by and for Youth
Conclusion
Appendix One. Ideas for Feminist Activism
Appendix Two. Recommended Resources
Notes
Index
About the Authors and Contributors
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Editorial Reviews

Recommended. General and undergraduate libraries.” —Choice

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