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Feminist moments : reading feminist texts /

The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrate...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bruce, Susan, 1960- (Editor ), Smits, Katherine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, ©2015.
Colección:Textual moments in the history of political thought
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Halftitle Page
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Series Editors' Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies
  • 2. Anne Bradstreet and the Seventeenth-Century Articulation of 'the female voice'
  • 3. Mary Astell's Critique of Marriage Practices
  • 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women's Coffee House
  • 5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women
  • 6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • 7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson
  • 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
  • 9. 'Something Akin to Freedom': Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition
  • 10. On the Enslavement of Women's Minds: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women
  • 11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress
  • 12. How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
  • 13. Ecology and Virtue in Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Sultana's Dream
  • 14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism
  • 15. Virginia Woolf, Genre-Bending and Feminist Life-Writing: A Room of One's Own
  • 16. 'Your sister in the 'gator and the 'gator in your sister': Judgement in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • 17. 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman': The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir's Account of Woman: The Second Sex
  • 18. Betty Friedan's Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity
  • 19. 'Writing as Re-Vision': Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
  • 20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse
  • 21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela's Bedside Manners
  • Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought
  • Notes
  • Feminist Moments: Further Reading
  • Index
  • Imprint