Modern Feminisms

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ISBN: 9780231080736 | 0231080735
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Copyright: 9/1/1992

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This is the first comprehensive collection of feminist politics and writings by the most influential feminists of the twentieth century, with a full glossary of key terms, section introductions, and entries on individual writers. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Betty Friedan, Gayle Rubin, Laura Mulvey, Elaine Showalter, and Julia Kristeva.Modern Feminismscovers key feminist ideas and perspectives on the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture, and representation, and provides a persepective on the variety of modern feminisms that have emerged in the twentieth century.

Preface

List of Abbreviations

xiii

Chronology of events and texts from 1900 to the present

History of feminism in Britain and America

(8)

Introduction

(1)

America

(1)

Britain

(1)

Summary

(5)

PART I HERSTORY: FROM OLIVE SCHREINER TO THE `SECOND WAVE'

(42)

First Wave Feminism

(40)

Introduction

(3)

First Wave

(37)

Olive Schreiner

(2)

Woman and Labour

(3)

Virginia Woolf

(2)

A Room of One's Own

(4)

Three Guineas

(3)

Rebecca West

(1)

`The Life of Emily Davison'

(3)

`Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice'

(1)

Ray Strachey

(1)

The Cause

(2)

Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

(2)

`Why Feminism Lives'

(2)

`Feminism Divided'

(2)

Simone de Beauvoir

(2)

The Second Sex

(5)

PART II THEORIES, POLITICS, DOCUMENTS AND DEBATES

(351)

Second Wave Feminism

(34)

Themes

(1)

Historical overview

(2)

Feminist theory and the academic disciplines

(3)

Summary

(28)

Kate Millett

(1)

Sexual Politics

(4)

Shulamith Firestone

(1)

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

(3)

Susan Brownmiller

(1)

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

(4)

Susan Griffin

(1)

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

(3)

Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature

(3)

Andrea Dworkin

(1)

Pornography: Men Possessing Women

(4)

Socialist/Marxist Feminism

(35)

Introduction

(35)

Juliet Mitchell

(1)

`Women: the Longest Revolution'

(2)

Sheila Rowbotham

(1)

Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

(5)

Heidi Hartmann

(1)

`Capitalism, Patriarchy and Job Segregation by Sex'

(6)

`The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union'

105

(6)

Michele Barrett

111

(1)

Women's Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist-Feminist Analysis

112

(4)

Catharine MacKinnon

116

(1)

`Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State: An Agenda for Theory'

117

(5)

Asian, Black, and Women of Colour Lesbianisms/Feminisms

122

(41)

Introduction

122

(41)

Joyce Ladner

124

(1)

Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman

125

(3)

Angela Davis

128

(1)

Women, Race and Class

129

(4)

Combahee River Collective

133

(1)

`A Black Feminist Statement'

134

(3)

Audre Lorde

137

(1)

`An Open Letter to Mary Daly'

138

(2)

Alice Walker

140

(1)

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

141

(1)

Gloria Anzaldua

142

(1)

`La Prieta'

143

(1)

Rosario Morales

144

(1)

`I Am What I Am'

145

(2)

Mitsuye Yamada

147

(1)

`Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism'

148

(2)

Amina Mama

150

(1)

`Black Women, the Economic Crisis and the British State'

151

(5)

`Violence Against Black Women: Gender, Race and State Responses'

156

(7)

Lesbian Feminism

163

(18)

Introduction

163

(18)

Mary Daly

165

(1)

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

166

(4)

Charlotte Bunch

170

(1)

`Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education'

171

(4)

Adrienne Rich

175

(1)

`Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence'

176

(5)

Liberal Feminism

181

(12)

Introduction

181

(12)

Betty Friedan

182

(1)

The Feminine Mystique

183

(1)

Zillah Eisenstein

184

(1)

The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism

185

(4)

`The Sexual Politics of the New Right: Understanding the ``Crisis of Liberalism'' for the 1980s'

189

(4)

Difference

193

(34)

Introduction

193

(34)

Helene Cixous

195

(1)

`The Laugh of the Medusa'

196

(7)

Luce Irigaray

203

(1)

This Sex which is Not One

204

(3)

`When Our Lips Speak Together'

207

(4)

Julia Kristeva

211

(1)

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

212

(4)

`Women's Time'

216

(3)

Carol Gilligan

219

(1)

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

220

(4)

`Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle'

224

(3)

Psychoanalytic Feminism

227

(24)

Introduction

227

(24)

Phyllis Chesler

228

(1)

Women and Madness

229

(3)

Dorothy Dinnerstein

232

(1)

The Mermaid and the Minotaur

233

(5)

Juliet Mitchell

238

(1)

Psychoanalysis and Feminism

239

(4)

Jean Baker Miller

243

(1)

Toward a New Psychology of Women

244

(3)

Sarah Kofman

247

(1)

The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings

248

(3)

Nature

251

(9)

Introduction

251

(9)

Sherry Ortner

252

(1)

`Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?'

253

(3)

Gayle Rubin

256

(1)

`The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ``Political Economy'' of Sex'

257

(3)

Sexuality and Reproduction

260

(36)

Introduction

260

(36)

Anne Koedt

261

(1)

`The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm'

262

(2)

Mary Jane Sherfey

264

(1)

`A Theory on Female Sexuality'

265

(4)

Adrienne Rich

269

(1)

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

270

(7)

Nancy Chodorow

277

(1)

The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender

278

(6)

Audre Lorde

284

(1)

`Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power'

285

(2)

Gayle Rubin

287

(1)

`Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality'

288

(3)

Rosalind Petchesky

291

(1)

Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom

292

(4)

Peace

296

(8)

Introduction

296

(8)

Sara Ruddick

297

(1)

`Preservative Love and Military Destruction: Some Reflections on Mothering and Peace'

298

(6)

Philosophy and the Sciences

304

(19)

Introduction

304

(19)

Dorothy Smith

305

(1)

`Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology'

306

(5)

Evelyn Fox Keller

311

(1)

`Feminism and Science'

312

(6)

Sandra Harding

318

(1)

`Conclusion: Epistemological Questions'

319

(4)

History

323

(23)

Introduction

323

(23)

Gerda Lerner

324

(1)

The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History

325

(6)

Joan Kelly-Gadol

331

(1)

`The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History

332

(4)

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

336

(1)

`The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America'

337

(5)

Sheila Rowbotham

342

(1)

`Search and Subject, Threading Circumstance'

343

(3)

Culture

346

(21)

Introduction

346

(21)

Laura Mulvey

347

(1)

`Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

348

(6)

Teresa de Lauretis

354

(1)

Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema

355

(3)

Gisela Ecker

358

(1)

Feminist Aesthetics

359

(2)

Griselda Pollock

361

(1)

`Feminism and Modernism'

362

(5)

Language and Writing

367

(22)

Introduction

367

(22)

Adrienne Rich

368

(1)

`When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision'

369

(3)

Barbara Smith

372

(1)

Toward a Black Feminist Criticism

373

(3)

Ros Coward

376

(1)

``This Novel Changes Lives'': Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels?'

377

(4)

Elaine Showalter

381

(1)

`Towards a Feminist Poetics'

382

(3)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

385

(1)

`For the Etruscans'

386

(3)

Feminism and Education

389

(13)

Introduction

389

(13)

Adrienne Rich

390

(1)

`Toward a Woman-Centered University'

391

(3)

Marcia Westkott

394

(1)

`Women's Studies as a strategy for change: between criticism and vision'

395

(3)

Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith

398

(1)

`The Politics of Black Women's Studies'

399

(3)

In conclusion

402

(2)

Glossary

404

(6)

Acknowledgements

410

(4)

Index

414

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