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New York: Garland P, This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the centrality of feminist thought to all areas of intellectual enquiry. In a wide-ranging discussion, Evans argues that most accounts of the world since the Enlightenment have been constructed in terms of a distinction between the public and the private which excluded women.

Using both historical and more recent examples, she examines the breadth and complexity of feminist thinking, focusing on key themes such as the body, representation, engendering knowledge, and the relationship between women and the state. Evans argues that feminist thought seeks less to add to existing theory than to re-theorize the social and symbolic worlds; no contemporary account of these worlds, she suggests, is complete without a discussion of the implications of gender difference.

This book offers a clear and coherent guide to contemporary feminism for students of women's studies, gender studies, sociology, social theory and literary theory. A critical introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, now with new considerations of existential feminism and a conclusion reflecting on the future of feminist theory.

This book presents MacKinnon's powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state.

This reader presents an understanding of Caribbean feminist scholarship. The essays deal with diverse topics including the role of women in Caribbean art; the development of "women's history" and "gendered history"; the representation of masculinity in Caribbean feminist thought; and more.

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value.

Doing Feminist Theory critically examines feminist thought from the late 18th century to the present. Organized historically and by theoretical perspectives, it highlights the relationship between feminist theory and practice, as well as the diversity of feminist visions and voices by race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and global location.

The history of feminist thought is interwoven with the history of the U. Links between the local and global are emphasized in theory application sections devoted to global and environmental issues. First published in Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late s.

With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists. Feminism Nonfiction Race Philosophy More Details.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall 16 books 19 followers. Search review text. The anthology would have been more comprehensive had it included the experiences of Black women around the world. Are they not connected to African-American woman's experience here in the states? There's no silver lining in this book. The insights are untouchable but the Black woman in America is not completely hopeless as the book would lead one to believe.

Powerful, but it should be read over time- with many, many, many breaks in between. Renee P. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought approaches the topic of African-American intellectual thought by examining the writings and work of women working toward racial and gender equity.

One of the most recurrent themes, from Sojourner Truth to Florynce Kennedy to bell hooks, is the idea of economic inequity. Thus, the prison captures not just bodies, but also feelings, desires, and forms of knowledge. The prison could disappear tomorrow and the types of power that give rise to its reign could live on in other forms such as the regimes we call freedom, rights, and the state or structures like settler-colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and white supremacy.

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