The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0415917603 ISBN 13 : 9780415917605

Editeur : Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

This volume collects many of the major essays of feminst theory of the past 40 years. The essays included here are those which have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and which have generated extensive discussion. The collection situates particular debates within their historical contexts and provides a sense of why certain questions emerged when they did. Through this collection, the reader is able to gain a sense of the diverse directions feminist theory has taken over the last 40 years, where feminist theory stands at the moment, and the questions which are just now beginning to emerge.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have generated extensive discussion. Organized historically, these essays provide a sense of the major turning points in feminist theory.

Contributors include: Norma Alarcon, Linda Alcoff, Michele Barrett, Elsa Barkley Brown, Judith Butler, Nancy Chodorow, Patricia Hill Collins, Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Nancy Fraser, Carol Gilligan, Heidi Hartmann, Nancy C. M. Hartsock, Luce Irigaray, Catharine MacKinnon, Uma Narayan, Linda Nicholson, Ellen Rooney, Gayle Rubin, Gayatri Spivak, Wendy W. Williams and Monique Wittig.

Biographie de l'auteur

Linda Nicholson is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Albany. She is the author of Gender and History (1986), editor of Feminism/Postmodernism (Routledge, 1990) and the co- editor with Steven Seidman of Social Postmodernism. She is editor of Routledge's Thinking Gender series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415917603
• ISBN 13: 9780415917605
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Nicholson Linda J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible