Foucault and Feminism

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Is Feminism Finished?

Discusses the meaning of the term feminism through the twentieth century. Background on the book "Three Guineas," by Virginia Woolf, which dismissed feminism; Role of the Second Wave feminism in education; Problems posed in writing the history of feminism.

The politics of manhood - Kimmel,M

This essay reviews two recently published American books about masculinity politics - Michael Kimmel's pro-feminist Manhood in America adn his edited collection The Politics of Manhood - in order to comment critically on the current debate underway in various parts of he world on 'boys' and their schooling which sees them as the 'new victims' of the educational process.