Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings
By:
Susan Shaw Janet Lee
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Women’s Voices is an introductory women's studies reader crafted to include a balance of recent contemporary readings with historical and classic pieces. This student-friendly text provides short, accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. This new edition includes revised chapter framework essays that reflect the most up-to-date research and theory in the field.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Women's Voices, Feminist Visions - I got the product very quickly. It was also in the condition the seller said it would be. Would do business with seller again.
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
One thing... - On your description it said that the cover was bent a little bit but the pages were clean and crisp, however in the first chapter there was a lot of nice bright pink highlighting...next time please acknowledge that because I definitely did not get what I thought I bought. Thanks.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Good women's studies book - I purchased this book for my women's studies class. The content of the book was excellent and the essays included, written by prominent people in the women's studied and the women's movement, helped reinforce the message of the chapters. A good book for anyone interested in learning the TRUTH about feminism and exposing the stereotypes.
Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Disturbing - I purchased this book for a required Women's Studies course. First, the text is poorly written. It is difficult to follow, redundant, and fails to define a number of key terms and concepts. Concerning the actual content, I find it intellectually insulting. As with the subject of Women's Studies as a whole, the propositions set forth in this book are not testable empirical observations. The authors prattle on about how certain peoples and things in our society are either over- or under-valued. Ironically, all of their observations are themselves subjective value judgments. The authors don't present any reasoning behind these judgments, rather, they take for granted that the reader has accepted and internalized certain premises, e.g. capitalism is bad. What that makes this book then, is a vehicle for indoctrinating students with the authors' postmodern socialist beliefs. Again, it is ironic that key readings in the book emphasize the point that women should not passively receive their education, but question what they are taught. I can't believe I've been asked to read such a blatantly biased book at a public university.
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