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21. Nostalgia and Sexual Difference (RLE Feminist Theory)

    The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism

    Edited by Janice Doane, DEVON HODGES

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Dissatisfaction with the present can cause people to gaze nostalgically back to an idealized past; that nostalgia pervades contemporary rhetoric. In lamenting the ‘degeneracy’ of present-day America, social and literary critics as well as contemporary novelists often choose as their scapegoat the...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
22. The Horned God (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Feminism and Men as Wounding and Healing

    By John Rowan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    This original and pioneering study of how men relate to feminism will appeal to all men who are concerned about their response to the women’s movement and to the women in their lives. It will also be helpful for women seeking a constructive response from men. John Rowan, drawing on his personal...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
23. The Oppositional Imagination (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Feminism, Critique and Political Theory

    Edited by Joan Cocks

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The Oppositional Imagination draws together elements from Marxism, analytical philosophy, post-structuralism, and post-colonial criticism to analyse the elusive interplay of culture and power. It focuses its attention on cultural domination, opposition and evasion in the realm of sex and gender....

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
24. Feminists and State Welfare (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Edited by JENNIFER DALE, PEGGY FOSTER

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Designed for students of social policy and women’s studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare. The authors draw on feminist theory, research and analysis to explore women’s experiences of welfare, and the debates within feminism on how...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
25. Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Edited by Rosemary Hennessy

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking ‘woman’ as a discursively constructed subject. The book looks at the problem of examining critically the social dimensions on which theories of discourse are premised: how such...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
26. Julia Kristeva (RLE Feminist Theory)

    By John Lechte

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this up-to-date survey of her work, John Lechte outlines fully and systematically her intellectual development. He traces it from her work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
27. Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminist Theory)

    The Women's Movement in Four Cultures

    By Susan Bassnett

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The Women’s Movement is usually referred to as if it were a constant, global phenomenon. There are women’s movements in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan and Australia, and many women and men assume that they are regional manifestations of the same thing, and...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
28. Married to the Job (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work

    By Janet Finch

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area: the relationships of wives to their husbands’ work. Janet Finch looks both at the way women’s lives are directly affected by the work their husbands do and how they can get drawn into it. These she sees as the two sides of wives’ ‘...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
29. Problems for Feminist Criticism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Edited by Sally Minogue

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of structuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalytic criticism; just as rapidly it has been shedding its own early theories and methodologies. Now it is a...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
30. Science and the Construction of Women (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Edited by Mary Maynard

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Science and the Construction of Women is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the major questions currently challenging feminist scholars of science. The authors ask key questions: What constitutes science? How have feminists investigated it? How does science ‘construct’ women? How can we create a...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge