Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary feminist theories / edited by Stevi Jackson and Jackie Jones.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Jackson, Stevi.
• Jones, Jackie, 1964-
• Jones, Jackie.

Description

vi, 271 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Feminist theory has grown into a vast field. Feminist writers, thinkers, and activists have produced an often bewildering body of knowledge concerned with difference and diversity, identity and inequality, ethnicity, race, and class, as well as gender. Despite its growing influence, however, no single comprehensive text encompasses the past, present, and future of feminist theory. Contemporary Feminist Theories was inspired by a dissatisfaction with existing introductions, which often fail to fully track change and capture diversity within feminist thought. The volume draws on the expertise of a range of Western feminists in order to reflect the breadth of feminist theory as well as shifts within it. Each chapter maps the development of feminist thought in a particular area over time, and suggests future directions. Reflecting the diversity of feminist theory in fields from literature and linguistics to science and politics, this multi-disciplinary map of feminist thinking is an ideal classroom text.

Subject

• Feminism
• Feminist theory
• Women > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Thinking for Ourselves: An Introduction to Feminist Theorising --- 2. Feminist Social Theory --- 3. Feminist Theory and Economic Change --- 4. Feminist Political Theory --- 5. Feminist Jurisprudence --- 6. Feminism and Anthropology --- 7. Black Feminisms --- 8. Post-colonial Feminist Theory --- 9. Lesbian Theory --- 10. Theorising Gender and Sexuality --- 11. Feminist Linguistic Theories --- 12. Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory --- 13. Postmodernism and Feminism --- 14. Feminist Literary Theory --- 15. Feminist Media and Film Theory --- 16. Theorising the Personal --- 17. Women's Studies.

ISBN

• 074861141X
• 0748606890 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^98040716^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library