| Description |
x, 414 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Early Statements. 1. "Introduction" to The Second Sex / Simone De Beauvoir. 2. The Dialectic of Sex / Shulamith Firestone. 3. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex / Gayle Rubin. 4. A Black Feminist Statement / The Combahee River Collective. 5. The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism / Wendy W. Williams -- Pt. 2. With and Against Marx. 6. The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union / Heidi Hartmann. 7. Capitalism and Women's Liberation / Michele Barrett. 8. Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic / Linda Nicholson -- Pt. 3. Gynocentrism: Women's Oppression, Women's Identity, and Women's Standpoint. 9. The Woman Identified Woman / Radicalesbians. 10. Sexuality / Catharine A. MacKinnon. 11. The Psychodynamics of the Family / Nancy Chodorow. 12. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle / Carol Gilligan. 13. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism / Nancy C. M. Hartsock. 14. Defining Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Pt. 4. Theorizing Difference/Deconstructing Identity. 15. One is Not Born a Woman / Monique Wittig. 16. "What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics / Elsa Barkley Brown. 17. The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism / Norma Alarcon. 18. Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Judith Butler -- Pt. 5. The Question of Essentialism. 19. "This Sex Which is Not One" / Luce Irigaray. 20. Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory / Linda Alcoff. 21. "In a Word": Interview / Gayatri Spivak and Ellen Rooney. 22. Structuralism or Pragmatics? On Discourse Theory and Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser. 23. Contesting Cultures: "Westernization," Respect For Cultures, and Third-World Feminists / Uma Narayan |
| Summary |
This volume collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past 40 years-works which have made key contributors to feminist thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Feminist theory -- United States.
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Feminist theory.
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Second-wave feminism -- United States.
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Women's rights -- United States.
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Women's rights.
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| Author |
Nicholson, Linda J.
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| LC no. |
96025168 |
| ISBN |
0415917603 (hb) |
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0415917611 (pb) |
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