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...simple terms, we might suggest that there are two routes to troubles becoming public issues which are distinguished by the question: whose problem is this? Some troubles become social or public problems as a result of the actions of those people who experience them (or those who speak on behalf of such people). Thus, campaigns aim to capture public attention and direct it...

...code. Veils, foot binding and kimonos are discussed as tools of female confinement and symbols of male ownership. Yet this, as Foreman passionately argues, is not the entire story. Throughout history, women acted, laying claim to agency and identity in ways which threatened patriarchal ideas of order. The Ascent of Woman seeks to tell these stories. To do so, it focuses...