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11. Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    By Gisela Kaplan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world. Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change...

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
12. Disputed Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy

    By Jane Flax

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Incorporating autobiography as well as reflections on relations between mothers and daughters, psychoanalysis, feminist theorizing, race, and modernist political theories and philosophies, renowned feminist theorist Jane Flax brings together eight of her most recent essays in Disputed Subjects. ‘...

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
13. Feminism in France (RLE Feminist Theory)

    From May '68 to Mitterand

    By Claire Duchen

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Feminism in France charts the evolution of the women’s liberation in France (MLF) from its emergence in 1968 to the present. Claire Duchen provides a lucid and compelling account of different feminist practices in France, clarifying the divergent political stances and the feminist theory that...

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
14. Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Sex, class and race in literature and culture

    Edited by Deborah Rosenfelt, Judith Newton

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society....

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
15. At the Boundaries of Law (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Feminism and Legal Theory

    Edited by Martha Fineman, Nancy Thomadsen

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women’s roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
16. Feminist Knowledge (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Critique and Construct

    Edited by Sneja Gunew

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The ‘minority’ feminist viewpoints have often been submerged in the interests of maintaining a mainstream, universal model of feminism. This anthology takes into account the various differences among women while looking at the important areas of feminist struggle. While sisterhood is indeed global,...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
17. Feminist Praxis (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology

    Edited by Liz Stanley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Feminist social scientists often find that carrying feminism into practice in their research is neither easy nor straightforward. Designed precisely with feminist researchers in mind, Feminist Praxis gives detailed analytic accounts of particular examples of feminist research, showing how feminist...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
18. Feminists Read Habermas (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Gendering the Subject of Discourse

    Edited by Johanna Meehan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas's theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and normativity. Feminist scholars have been drawn to his...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
19. Gendered Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory)

    The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching

    Edited by Catherine Portuges, Margo Culley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The phrase ‘feminist pedagogy’ couples the contemporary and the traditional, joining current political movements with a concern for the transmission of knowledge more ancient than the Greek word for teaching. Now, two decades after the first Women’s Studies courses appeared on campuses, their place...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
20. Men in Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Edited by Alice Jardine, Paul Smith

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    What are men doing in feminist discourse? Although many feminists have commented on the relation, actual or possible, of men to feminist thinking and practice, and although some male academics have written about feminism, there has so far been little shared discussion. Men in Feminism is the first...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge