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1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Series |
Textual moments in the history of political thought |
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Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies -- 2. Anne Bradstreet and the Seventeenth-Century Articulation of 'the female voice' -- 3. Mary Astell's Critique of Marriage Practices -- 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women's Coffee House -- 5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women -- 6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
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7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson -- 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- 9. 'Something Akin to Freedom': Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition -- 10. On the Enslavement of Women's Minds: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women -- 11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress -- 12. How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
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13. Ecology and Virtue in Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Sultana's Dream -- 14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism -- 15. Virginia Woolf, Genre-Bending and Feminist Life-Writing: A Room of One's Own -- 16. 'Your sister in the 'gator and the 'gator in your sister': Judgement in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God -- 17. 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman': The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir's Account of Woman: The Second Sex -- 18. Betty Friedan's Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity |
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19. 'Writing as Re-Vision': Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich -- 20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse -- 21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela's Bedside Manners -- Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought -- Notes -- Feminist Moments: Further Reading -- Index -- Imprint |
| Summary |
The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Naz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Feminism -- History
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Social & political philosophy.
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Political science & theory.
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Political ideologies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Feminism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruce, Susan, 1960- editor.
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Smits, Katherine, editor
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| ISBN |
1474230407 |
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1474237975 |
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9781474237970 |
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9781474230407 |
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9781474230414 |
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1474230415 |
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