Women and children first : feminism, rhetoric, and public policy

Product Description A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives. Review "This volume offers a highly interesting and provocative look at the complex, often contradictory, relationship of women and public policy. The essays, including an excellent introduction by the editors, reveal the dilemmas inherent in past feminist approaches to this topic and suggest new ways to approach it. Particularly valuable is the book's discussion of 'security' in the post-9/11 world, as an element that now enters such debates." About the Author Sharon M. Meagher is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Scranton.Patrice DiQuinzio is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women’s Studies at Muhlenberg College. She is the author of The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering and coeditor (with Iris Marion Young) of Feminist Ethics and Social Policy.