{"product_id":"reaction-and-resistance-9780774814119","title":"Reaction and Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image of backlash is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain the resistance to feminist initiatives for social change in contemporary culture?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy  child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault  and in a number of institutional sites, such as courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their studies paint a more complicated, often contradictory, picture of feminism, law, and social change than the popular image of backlash suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReaction and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e offers feminists and other activists empirically grounded knowledge that can be used to develop legal and political strategies for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eReaction and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e adds to the extant critical and feminist theorizing about the workings of social movements and counter-movements. Their research provides empirically grounded knowledge that feminists and other social activists can draw on in developing new legal and political strategies…. The contributors, taken together, bring an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach to the analysis of feminism, law, and social change. The chapters provide exemplars of the complete range of issues that feminists have addressed. They build on and expand the existing work and synthesize knowledge about the dynamics and impacts of feminist social movements. -- SirReadaLot, February 2008\u003cbr\u003eThis text provides an analysis of the resistance to feminism evident in the Courts, government, media and academia. As a result of these views, a wide range of social ills have been allowed to proliferate including child poverty, sexual harassment and sexual assault. […] The book is a well organized outline of what remains to be done, and what can be done, to achieve equality between men and women. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac, Verdict, Issue 116, March 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Feminism, Law, and Social Change: An Overview \/ Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd, and Hester Lessard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Media Representations of Feminism, Anti-Racism, and Their Counter-Movements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 “Take It Easy Girls”: Feminism, Equality, and Social Change in the Media \/ Dorothy E. Chunn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men’s “Rights” and Feminist “Wrongs” in Cyberspace \/ Robert Menzies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Imperial Longings, Feminist Responses: Print Media and the Imagining of Nationhood after 9\/11 \/ Sunera Thobani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Sexual Terrains: Criminal Law and the Campus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Discursive Disappearance of Sexualized Violence: Feminist Law Reform, Judicial Resistance, and Neo-liberal Sexual Citizenship \/ Lise Gotell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Backlash in the Academy: The Evolution of Campus Sexual Harassment Regimes \/ Hester Lessard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Familial Identities and Neo-Liberal Reform\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Feminism, Fathers’ Rights, and Family Catastrophes: Parliamentary Discourses on Post-Separation Parenting, 1966-2003 \/ Susan B. Boyd and Claire F.L. Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Child-Centred Advocacy and the Invisibility of Women in Poverty Discourse and Social Policy \/ Wanda Wiegers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Challenging Heteronormativity? Reaction and Resistance to the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships \/ Claire F.L. Young and Susan B. Boyd\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404916597079,"sku":"9780774814119","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reaction-and-resistance-9780774814119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}