Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions, Third Edition

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2000 M07 1 - 304 pages
This first major study of feminist theory, which is revised and completely reset, now takes the reader into the twentieth century. It chronicles a renaissance of feminist theory through the so-called third wave of the present day, which follows significant "waves" of earlier periods: the fifteenth through early eighteenth centuries as well as the more widely recognized nineteenth century; and the 1960s through the 80s.
 

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition 2000
11
Preface to the Second Edition 1992
13
Preface to the First Edition 1985
15
1 Enlightenment Liberal Feminism
17
2 NineteenthCentury Cultural Feminism
47
3 Feminism and Marxism
79
4 Feminism and Freudianism
105
5 Feminism and Existentialism
131
6 Radical Feminism
155
7 The Moral Vision of TwentiethCentury Cultural Feminism
183
8 Into the Twentyfirst Century
199
Notes
223
Selected Bibliography
269
Index
282
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Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Maine, USA. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including the groundbreaking Feminist Theory (Continuum, 3rd ed, 2000), Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (St. Martin's Press, 1999), and After the Fall (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).

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