Women's Studies 2283F/G Chapter Notes -Femininity, Good Governance, Postfeminism
1 May 2013
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In this literature the case is often made that feminism has reached a key turning point in its development and that questions must be asked about its applicability to contemporary gender relations and transformed late modern social conditions. Is now accepted that feminism itself is characterized by diversity, fragmentation and a series of internal contestations. Debates have waged around which aims and objectives ought to be pursued within a context where greater levels of gender equality have been achieved and women"s autonomy has been enhanced. Feminism asserts that women suffer discrimination because of their sex. At times analyses of the contemporary state of feminism reveal a desire for a return to authenticity and coherence ideals often projected onto a mythical feminist past, associated with the women"s movement. Attempts to define feminism ought to give way to the acceptance that contemporary feminist practice features by a substantial degree of ambiguity and disagreement.
