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Author:   Karen Vintges
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9789089646026

ISBN 10:   9089646027
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   02 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Women's Freedom Practices 2. Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective 3. Muslim Women's Freedom Practices 4. The Battle of Myths 5. Feminism in a New Key

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- [Karen Vintges's] book interacts in a very innovative way with the thinking of Simone Beauvoir and Michel Foucault ... Her book certainly provides her readers with profound and relevant issues for the present era, especially for the refinement of the d

- This is a pioneering and audacious book about a topic that is lived and thought worldwide. - Siep Stuurman in World History, Harvard University Press, 2017.[-][-] [-][-]- De auteur slaagt erin om abstracte begrippen, filosofische pr

- This is a pioneering and audacious book about a topic that is lived and thought worldwide. - Siep Stuurman / author of The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History, Harvard University Press, 2017.[-][-] <

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Karen Vintges teaches Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam. She has published inter alia Philosophy as Passion. The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 [originally in Dutch, 1992]); Feminism and the Final Foucault, ed. by D. Taylor & K.Vintges (Illinois University Press, 2004), and several other books in Dutch.

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