Feminist theory : the intellectual traditions
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Feminist theory : the intellectual traditions
Continuum, c2012
4th ed., rev. and expanded
- : hardcover
- : pbk
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Notes: p. [211]-263
Bibliography: p. [265]-278
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This first major study of feminist theory, revised and updated here into its fourth edition, now takes the reader into the twenty-first century. With the renewed interest in feminism, which has been called "the "fourth wave" of feminism - the "first wave" being the nineteenth-century movement, the "second wave" the developments between 1960-80, and the "third wave" the emergence in the 1990s of ecofeminism, global feminism, the intertwining of the women's rights and animal rights movements, and so-called postmodern feminism - people are re-engaging with the basic question, "What is feminism? What does it mean?" Donovan's book provides a clear answer to the question, outlining the various strands of feminist theory: liberal, cultural, Marxist-socialist, Freudian, and radical. This Fourth Edition brings the discussion up-to-date, integrating the developments in feminist theory that have emerged in the last two decades and particularly since the publication of the Third Edition (2000).
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Fourth Edition (2012)
- Preface to the First Edition (1985)
- 1. Enlightenment Liberal Feminism
- 2. Nineteenth-Century Cultural Feminism
- 3. Feminism and Marxism
- 4. Feminism and Freudianism
- 5. Feminism and Existentialism
- 6. Radical Feminism
- 7. The Moral Vision of Twentith-Century Cultural Feminism
- 8. Into the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
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