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Provoking Agents

GENDER AND AGENCY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

By: Judith Gardiner (Editor)

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Paperback | 16 March 1995

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     "A major contribution in women's studies and in other disciplines
        dealing with issues of agency. The authors raise issues that are very
        important . . . and they raise them as they must be raised--by bridging
        theory and action." -- Kathryn Pine Addelson, author of Moral
        Passages: Toward a Collectivist Moral Theory
      Both the women's liberation movement and those who have studied it characterize
        agency as the capacity to make change in individual consciousness, personal
        lives, and society. The seventeen contributors to Provoking Agents
        explore whether--and how--feminist theory, writing, and other social practices
        can help readers move beyond seeing women as a powerless group to effecting
        changes in their own lives and, ultimately, becoming social activists.
        Topics in this multi-disciplinary collection range from maternal surrogacy
        to writing, from consciousness-raising to AIDS activism, from pornography
        to local organizing

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''A provocative and necessary read.'' -- Electronic Book Review.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Philosophy Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls

Introduction	p. 1
Acting Otherwise	p. 23
Consciousness and Action: Historical Agency in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union	p. 52
Mothers of Invention: Women's Agency in the Kenyan State	p. 69
Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory	p. 93
Reproductive Technologies and the Negotiation of Public Meanings: The Case of Baby M	p. 115
Cyborgean Motherhood and Abortion	p. 133
Maternal Agency vs. the Brotherhood of Males	p. 152
Women's Agency in Psychological Contexts	p. 169
Agency: What's the Problem?	p. 178
Subjects and Agents: The Question for Feminism	p. 194
Feminist Forms of Agency and Oppositional Consciousness: U.S. Third World Feminist Criticism	p. 208
What Are We Doing? What Do We Want? Who Are We? Comprehending the Subject of Feminism	p. 229
Resisting Images: Rereading Adolescence	p. 249
Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	p. 280
A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle	p. 302
Contributors	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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