Rethinking the Stalled Revolution: Toward New Metaphors for Feminist Struggle.
In her pathbreaking 1989 book, The Second Shift , Arlie Hochschild introduced the idea of the "stalled revolution." In the years since, the phrase has gained prominence and influence among scholars of gender, many of whom now use the term to describe the pace of change in arenas far beyond its origi...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 225 - 247 |
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