Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity

Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity
Title Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity PDF eBook
Author Lori Marso
Publisher Routledge
Pages 164
Release 2013-01-11
Genre History
ISBN 1135525196

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Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." This fascinating interdisciplinary study focuses on how feminist thinkers throughout history have long striven to balance politics, intellectual work, and the material conditions of femininity. Taking a close look at this quest for an integrated life in the autobiographical and theoretical writings of well-known feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir, alongside contemporary counterparts, like Azar Nafisi, Audre Lorde, and Ana Castillo, Marso moves beyond questions of who women are and what women want, adding an innovative personal dimension to feminist theory, showing how changing conceptions of femininity manifest themselves within all women’s lives.

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers
Title Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers PDF eBook
Author Lori J. Marso
Publisher Routledge
Pages 300
Release 2016-07-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317192753

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The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and activists, well-established and emerging, old and young and in-between. These feminists speak the languages of art, politics, literature, education, classics, gender studies, film, queer theory, global affairs, political theory, science fiction, African American studies, sociology, American studies, geography, history, philosophy, poetry, and psychoanalysis. Speaking in all these diverse tongues, conversations made possible by feminist thinking are introduced and engaged. Key figures include: Simone de Beauvoir Doris Lessing Toni Morrison Cindy Sherman Octavia Butler Marina Warner Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chantal Akerman Betty Friedan Audre Lorde Margaret Fuller Sappho Adrienne Rich Each entry is supported by a list of the thinker’s major works, along with further reading suggestions. An ideal resource for students and academics alike, this text will appeal to all those interested in the fields of gender studies, women’s studies and women’s history and politics.

The Feminism of Uncertainty

The Feminism of Uncertainty
Title The Feminism of Uncertainty PDF eBook
Author Ann Snitow
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 231
Release 2015-08-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0822375672

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The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow’s passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gender Diary"—which confronts feminism’s need to embrace, while dismantling, the category of "woman"—Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely mixing genres in vibrant prose, she considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-reflexive accounts of her own organizing, writing, and teaching. Her pieces on international activism, sexuality, motherhood, and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminism’s impossible contradictions—and its utopian hopes.

Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory
Title Feminist Theory PDF eBook
Author bell hooks
Publisher Routledge
Pages 198
Release 2014-10-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317588347

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When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique
Title The Feminine Mystique PDF eBook
Author Betty Friedan
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 587
Release 2001-09-17
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0393322572

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The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique
Title The Feminine Mystique PDF eBook
Author Betty Friedan
Publisher
Pages 366
Release 1992
Genre Feminism
ISBN 9780140136555

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This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___

Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression

Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression
Title Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression PDF eBook
Author Caroline Ramazanoglu
Publisher Routledge
Pages 210
Release 2012-10-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1134971842

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Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression is a penetrating and comprehensive study of the development of feminism over the last thirty years. The first part of this major new textbook examines feminist theory and feminist political strategy. The second section examines how contradictions of class, race, subculture and sexuality divide women. The final part explores ways out of the impasse. This level-headed and challenging book is one of the most notable contributions to feminism in recent years.