Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Second EditionIn this second edition of her 1989 survey on feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides a more comprehensive and substantially redrawn map of twentieth-century feminist thinking. Besides providing up-to-date coverage of liberal, radical (libertarian and cultural), and Marxist-socialist schools of feminism, she covers psychoanalytic, existentialist, and postmodern feminism. All the chapters have been rethought and new chapters on ecofeminism and multicultural and global feminism have been added.In the clear-sighted and accessible style for which has become known, Tong guides the reader through the complexities of even the most notoriously difficult thinkers. Students will become familiar with many of the essential figures in the feminist tradition as well as some of the issues that have been of special concern to women (e.g., pornography, reproductive technology, housework, the environment, and militarism). Moreover, students are repeatedly urged to consider the many differences that separate women (class, race, ethnicity, age, nationality, religion) as well as the sameness that continue to unite women.Tong treats all views with respect and encourages the reader to think both sympathetically and critically about what feminism is and what relevance it has to their own lives. As valuable as the first edition of Feminist Thought, this second edition surpasses its predecessor in depth and breadth. Clearly, Tong believes that feminist thought is still developing even as it approaches the millennium. |
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... so - called sameness - difference debate - are women essentially the same as men or fundamentally different from men ? -but also in the so - called antiessentialism - essentialism debate - is woman's " nature " " plastic " ( mutable ...
... so - called sameness - difference debate - are women essentially the same as men or fundamentally different from men ? -but also in the so - called antiessentialism - essentialism debate - is woman's " nature " " plastic " ( mutable ...
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... so - called political issues and so - called women's issues is false . There is , they say , no bound- ary between these two kinds of issues . On the contrary , they co - constitute each other.63 In this connection , global feminist ...
... so - called political issues and so - called women's issues is false . There is , they say , no bound- ary between these two kinds of issues . On the contrary , they co - constitute each other.63 In this connection , global feminist ...
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... very much to erase the arbitrary line between so - called women's issues and so - called political issues and to bridge the gap between the perspec- tives of First World and Third World women . For example , as Charlotte Bunch prepared ...
... very much to erase the arbitrary line between so - called women's issues and so - called political issues and to bridge the gap between the perspec- tives of First World and Third World women . For example , as Charlotte Bunch prepared ...
Contents
Liberal Feminism | 10 |
Libertarian and Cultural Perspectives | 45 |
Marxist and Socialist Feminism | 94 |
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