{"product_id":"provoking-agents-gender-and-agency-in-theory-and-practice-0252064186","title":"Provoking Agents: GENDER AND AGENCY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0252064186\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gardiner, Judith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major contribution in women's studies and in other disciplinesdealing with issues of agency. The authors raise issues that are veryimportant . . . and they raise them as they must be raised--by bridgingtheory and action.\" -- Kathryn Pine Addelson, author of MoralPassages: Toward a Collectivist Moral TheoryBoth the women's liberation movement and those who have studied it characterizeagency as the capacity to make change in individual consciousness, personallives, and society. The seventeen contributors to Provoking Agentsexplore whether--and how--feminist theory, writing, and other social practicescan help readers move beyond seeing women as a powerless group to effectingchanges in their own lives and, ultimately, becoming social activists.Topics in this multi-disciplinary collection range from maternal surrogacyto writing, from consciousness-raising to AIDS activism, from pornographyto local organizing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51938161197344,"sku":"NEW0252064186","price":40.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/provoking-agents-gender-and-agency-in-theory-and-practice-0252064186","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}