Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Feminism and Materialism (RLE Feminist Theory): Women and Modes of Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Annette Kuhn, AnnMarie Wolpe
March 19, 2014
These original essays are planned to provide a coherent basis for an understanding of women’s social and historical situation. This achieved by outlining the foundation of a systematic approach to an analysis of women’s relationship to modes of production and reproduction within a materialist ...
Feminism in France (RLE Feminist Theory): From May '68 to Mitterand
1st Edition
By Claire Duchen
March 19, 2014
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 ...
Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory): Sex, class and race in literature and culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Rosenfelt, Judith Newton
March 19, 2014
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. ...
Goodbye Tarzan (RLE Feminist Theory): Men After Feminism
1st Edition
By Helen Franks
October 11, 2012
What do men feel about the women’s movement? How has it changed them, if at all? To try and answer these questions Helen Franks talked to many men and drew upon research in Britain, the US and Australia. She interviewed men from all social groups – business executives, writers, factory workers, ...
Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemary Hennessy
October 11, 2012
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 ...
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Various
October 11, 2012
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from The Liberation of Women to Feminists and State Welfare, from Married to the ...
Science and the Construction of Women (RLE Feminist Theory)
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Maynard
October 11, 2012
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 ...
The Sceptical Feminist (RLE Feminist Theory): A Philosophical Enquiry
1st Edition
By Janet Richards
October 11, 2012
A systematic and original study of feminist issues, The Sceptical Feminist fights a battle on two fronts: against the view that little or nothing is wrong with women’s position, and at the same time against much current feminist dogma. It is written by a philosopher who, in the tradition of John ...