Antifeminism and Family Terrorism A Critical Feminist Perspective

by Hammer, Rhonda

• ISBN13: 9780742510500
• ISBN10: 0742510506
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Rhonda Hammer's Antifeminism and Family Terrorism presents original and provocative critical feminist perspectives on violence against women and children. Hammer provides a clear and insightful analysis of the current rhetoric produced by antifeminists who would deny the seriousness of the problem and thus undercut important feminist concerns. Dr. Hammer documents the tragic dimensions of the brutalization of women and children in the family, and the larger problem of the increasing poverty and oppression of women and children in the global economy.

Author Biography

Rhonda Hammer is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and she teaches in women's studies and communication at UCLA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Antifeminism, Postfeminism, and the Backlash	13	(30)
Culture Wars over Feminism: Paglia, Wolf, and Hoff Sommers	43	(42)
The F-Word and the Victimization Debate	85	(48)
Family Terrorism	133	(34)
Colonization, Dialectics, and Borderland Feminisms	167	(40)
Bibliography	207	(20)
Index	227	(10)
About the Author	237