Modern Feminisms: Political, Literary, Cultural

Couverture
Maggie Humm
Columbia University Press, 1992 - 420 pages

This is the first comprehensive collection of feminist politics and writings by the most influential feminists of the twentieth century, with a full glossary of key terms, section introductions, and entries on individual writers. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Betty Friedan, Gayle Rubin, Laura Mulvey, Elaine Showalter, and Julia Kristeva.

Modern Feminisms covers key feminist ideas and perspectives on the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture, and representation, and provides a persepective on the variety of modern feminisms that have emerged in the twentieth century.

À l'intérieur du livre

Table des matières

History of feminism in Britain and America
1
FROM OLIVE SCHREINER TO
7
3 SECOND WAVE FEMINISM
53
4 SOCIALISTMARXIST FEMINISM
87
ASIAN BLACK AND WOMEN OF COLOUR
122
Angela Davis
128
LESBIAN FEMINISM
163
LIBERAL FEMINISM
181
11 SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION
260
PEACE
296
PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
304
HISTORY
323
CULTURE
346
LANGUAGE AND WRITING
367
17 FEMINISM AND EDUCATION
389
In conclusion
402

8 DIFFERENCE
193
9 PSYCHOANALYTIC FEMINISM
227
NATURE
251
Acknowledgements
410
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À propos de l'auteur (1992)

Maggie Humm is the Coordinator of Women's Studies at the Polytechnic of East London. She has been an exchange professor at the University of Massachusetts, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and has lectured widely in America, Britain, Brazil, and Israel. She is author of Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary Critics, An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Feminist Criticism, The Dictionary of Feminist Theory,and Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers.

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