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FEMINISM - Christina Fisanick, editor, FEMINISM: OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2008. 264p. $36.20, ISBN 978-0737737691; pap., $24.95, ISBN 978-0737737707.
Reviewed by Lea Susan Engle
Is feminism still relevant, or are we at the dawn of a post-feminist existence? Do women really earn less than men, and, if so, is it because they choose to do so? The titles in Greenhaven Press's Opposing Viewpoints series − in this case the latest version on feminism1 − aims to teach students how to look critically at broad questions by breaking them into concise and easily digested parts. The founders of the series encourage students to evaluate arguments based on the "authors' credibility, facts, argumentation styles, use of persuasive techniques and other stylistic tools" (p.11). Within the Feminism volume, each "viewpoint" essay is preceded by several questions about the authors' argument or evidence, and students are challenged to reconceptualize the idea of authority in academic research contexts by culling information from newer, less "scholarly" media types...