| Description |
xi, 414 pages |
| Contents |
Part I. Feminist knowledge : critique and construct. -- Introduction / Sneja Gunew -- Black women and women's liberation / Jackie Huggins -- Aboriginal women, separate spaces, and feminism / Diane Bell -- Sisterhood : political solidarity between women / Bel! Hooks (Gloria Watkins) -- Part II. Feminist knowledge and women's studies. -- Introduction / Susan Sheridan -- The uneasy alliance of feminism and academia / Marian Lowe and Margaret Lowe Benston -- From margin to mainstream : situating women's studies / Susan Sheridan -- What's new in women's history / Linda Gordon -- Part IIl. Male theories of power. -- Introduction / Elizabeth Grosz -- Gender and dichotomy / Nancy Jay -- Part IV. Feminism and subjectivity. -- Introduction / Philipa Rothfield -- An impasse in psychoanalysis and feminism / Teresa Brennan -- A critique of the sex/gender distinction / Moira Gatens -- Part V. Philosophy. -- Introduction / Elizabeth Grosz -- Reason as attainment / Genevieve Lloyd -- Feminism, philosophy, and riddles without answers / Moira Gatens -- Part VI. Psychoanalysis and feminism. -- Introduction / Hazel Rowley -- This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray -- Jacques Lacan : feminism and the problem of gender identity / Ellie Ragland-Sullivan -- The laugh of the Medusa / Hélène Cixous -- Part VII. Biology and feminism -- Introduction / Gisela Kaplan and Lesley Rogers -- The politics of right and left : sex differences in hemispheric brain asymmetry / Susan Leigh Star -- Science and gender : a critique of biology and its theories on women / Ruth Bleier -- Part VIII. Relgion. -- Introduction / Marie Tulip -- Bread not stone : the challenge of feminist biblical interpretation / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Renewal or new creation? : feminist spirituality and historical religion / Elisabeth Radford Ruether -- Why women need the goddess : phenomenological, psychological, and political reflections / Carol P. Christ -- Part IX. Radical feminism. -- Introduction / Robin Rowland and Renate D. Klein -- We are the feminists that women have warned us about / Jessica York ... [et al.] -- In defence of separatism / Susan Hawthorne -- Not for lesbians only / Charlotte Bunch -- The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anna Koedt -- The spiritual dimension of women's liberation / Mary Daly -- The visionary task : two sights-seeing / Janice Raymond -- Part X. Socialist feminist interventions. -- Introduction / Louise C. Johnson -- Lords of creation : Marxism, feminism, and 'utopian' socialism / Barbara Taylor -- Love's labours lost : Marxism and feminism / Mia Campioni and Elizabeth Grosz |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
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Feminism - Australia |
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Feminist theory |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Australia.
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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| Author |
Gunew, Sneja Marina, 1946-
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| LC no. |
89010959 |
| ISBN |
041504698X |
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