Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Feminist Knowledge (RLE Feminist Theory): Critique and Construct
1st Edition
Edited
By Sneja Gunew
March 31, 2014
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,...
Feminist Praxis (RLE Feminist Theory): Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology
1st Edition
Edited
By Liz Stanley
March 31, 2014
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 ...
Feminists Read Habermas (RLE Feminist Theory): Gendering the Subject of Discourse
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna Meehan
March 31, 2014
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...
Feminists and State Welfare (RLE Feminist Theory)
1st Edition
Edited
By JENNIFER DALE, PEGGY FOSTER
March 31, 2014
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 ...
Gendered Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory): The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Portuges, Margo Culley
March 31, 2014
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...
Julia Kristeva (RLE Feminist Theory)
1st Edition
By John Lechte
March 31, 2014
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 ...
Married to the Job (RLE Feminist Theory): Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work
1st Edition
By Janet Finch
March 31, 2014
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’ ‘...
Men in Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Jardine, Paul Smith
March 31, 2014
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 ...
At the Boundaries of Law (RLE Feminist Theory): Feminism and Legal Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Martha Albertson Fineman, Nancy Sweet Thomadsen
March 19, 2014
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...
Between Men and Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory): Colloquium: Papers
1st Edition
By David Porter
March 19, 2014
Between Men and Feminism had its origins in a lively colloquium at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1990. It discusses how two decades of feminism have affected the ways men define their own masculinities, and how they have responded in their own social, sexual and political lives to the challenges ...
Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)
1st Edition
By Gisela Kaplan
March 19, 2014
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 ...
Disputed Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory): Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Jane Flax
March 19, 2014
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. ‘...