Feminist Reflections on Childhood: A History and Call to Action
, "Feminist Reflections on Childhood: A History and Call to Action"
English | ISBN: 1439918686 | 2021 | 310 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1439918686 | 2021 | 310 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Feminist Reflections on Childhood, Penny Weiss rediscovers the radically feminist tradition of advocating for the liberatory treatment of youth. Weiss looks at both historical and contemporary feminists to understand what issues surrounding the inequality experienced by both women and children were important to the authors as feminist activists and thinkers. She uses the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Simone de Beauvoir to show early feminist arguments for the improved status and treatment of youth. Weiss also shows how Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a socialist feminist, and Emma Goldman, an anarchist feminist, differently understood and re-visioned children’s lives, as well as how children continue to show up on feminist agendas and in manifestos that demand better conditions for children’s lives.
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