| Description |
xx, 420 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. History of feminism in Britain and America -- 2. First Wave Feminism : -- Woman and Labour / Olive Schreiner -- A Room of One's Own ; Three Guineas / Virginia Woolf -- The Life of Emily Davison ; Mr. Chesterton in hysterics, a study in prejudice / Rebecca West -- The Cause / Ray Strachey -- Why Feminism Lives ; Feminism Divided / Vera Brittain and Winifred Hotby -- The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- 3. Second Wave Feminism : -- Feminist theory and the academic disciplines -- Sexual politics / Kate Millet -- The Dialectic of Sex, the case for feminist revolution / Shulasmith Firestone -- Against our will : men, women and rape / Susan Brownmiller -- Women and nature : the roaring inside of her ; Pornography and silence : the culture's revenge against nature / Susan Griffin -- Pornography : men possessing women / Andrea Dworkin -- 4. Socialist -- Marxist Feminism : -- Women, the longest revolution / Juliet Mitchell -- Woman's consciousness, Man's world / Sheila Rowbotham -- Capitalism, Patriarchy and Job Segregation by Sex ; The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism ; Towards a more Progressive Untion / Heidi Harmann -- Women's Oppression today : Problems in Marxist-Feminist Analysis / Michele Barrett -- Feminism, Marxism, Mehod and the state : an agenday for Theory / Catharine MacKinnon |
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13. Philosophy and the Sciences : -- Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology / Dorothy Smith -- Feminism and Science / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Conclusion : Epistemological Questions / Sandra Harding -- 14. History : -- The Majority Finds its Past : Placing Women in History / Gerda Lerner -- The Social Relation of the Sexes : Methodological implications of Women's History / Joan Kelly-Gadol -- The Female World of Love and Ritual : Relations Between Women in Nineteenth Century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Search and Subject, Threading Circumstance / Sheila Rowbotham -- 15. Culture : -- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Alice doesn't : Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema / Teresa de Lauretis -- Feminist Aesthetics / Gisela Ecker -- Feminism and Modernism / Griselda Pollock -- 16. Language and Writing : -- When we Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision / Adrienne Rich -- Toward a Black Feminist Criticism / Barbara Smith -- This Novel Changes Lives : Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels / Ros Coward -- Towards a Feminist Poetics / Elaine Showalter -- For the Etruscans / Rachel Blau DuPlessis |
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5. Asian, Black, and Women of Colour, Lesbianisms -- Feminisms : -- Tomorrow's tomorrow : the Black Woman / Joyce Ladner -- Women, Race and Class / Angela Davis -- A Black Feminist Statement / Combahee River Collective -- An Open Letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde -- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens / Alice Walker -- La Pieta / Gloria Anzaldua -- I am what i am / Rosario Morales -- Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism / Mitsuye Yamada -- Black Women, the Economic Crisis and the British State ; Violence Against Black Women : Gender, race and State / Amina Mama -- 6. Lesbian Feminism : -- Gyn/Ecology [Gynecology] : the Metaethics of Radical Feminism / Mary Daly -- Not by Degrees : Feminist Theory and Education / Charlotte Bunch -- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence / Adrienne Rich -- 7. Liberal Feminism : -- The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism ; The Sexual Politics of the New Right : Understanding the Crisis of Liberation for the 1980s / Zillah Eisenstein -- 8. Difference : -- The Laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous -- This Sex which is Not One ; When our Lips Speak Together / Luce Irigaray -- Desire in Language : a Semiotic approach to Literature and Art ; Women's Time / Julia Kristeva |
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Feminism and Education : -- Toward a Woman-Centered University / Adrienne Rich -- Women's Studies as a strategy for change : between criticism and vision / Marcia Westkott -- The Politics of Black Women's Studies / Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith |
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In a Different Voice : Psychological theory and Women's Development ; Woman's Place in the Man's Life Cycle / Carol Gilligan -- 9. Psychoanalytic Feminism : -- Women and Madness / Phyllis Chesler -- The Mermaid and the Minotaur / Dorothy Dinnerstein -- Psychoanalysis and Feminism / Juliet Mitchell -- Toward a New Psychology of Women / Jean Baker Miller -- The Enigma of Women : Woman in Freud's writing [Freud] / Sarah Kofman -- 14. Nature : -- Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? / Sherry Ortner -- The Traffic in Women : Notes on the Political Economy of Sex / Gayle Rubin -- 11. Sexuality and Reproduction : -- The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm / Anne Koedt -- A Theory on Female Sexuality / Mary Jane Sherfey -- Of Woman Born : Motherhood as Experience and Institution / Adrienne Rich -- The Reproduction of Mothering : Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender / Nancy Chodorow -- Uses of the Erotic : the Erotic as Power / Audre Lorde -- Thinking Sex : Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality / Gayle Rubin -- Abortion and Woman's Choice : The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom / Rosalind Petchesky -- 12. Peace : -- Preservative Love and Military Destruction : Some Reflections on Mothering and Peace / Sara Ruddick |
| Analysis |
Feminism History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Published in New York under the title: Modern feminisms, political, literary, cultural |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Great Britain.
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Feminism -- United States.
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Femisist theory
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| Author |
Humm, Maggie.
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| LC no. |
2556000091 |
| ISBN |
0745009247 |
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0745009255 (paperback) |
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