Modern Feminisms: Political, Literary, Cultural / Edition 1

by Maggie Humm

Overview

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 Feminisms covers 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231080736
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1992
Series:	Gender and Culture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.04(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Maggie Humm is a professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London and the author of many widely translated books, including Border Traffic, The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (the first edition of which was named an "outstanding academic book").

What People are Saying About This

Cheris Kramarae

Collectively these essays, along with the editor's clear introductions, provide the challenge for Western cultures. This book of classic essays will itself become a classic.

— Cheris Kramarae, Coeditor of The Feminist Dictionary and the International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies.

Editorial Reviews

Perfect for... individual students of twentieth-century feminist thought, this book contains seventy-plus excerpts from the classic works of writers from America, Britain, and France.

Feminist Bookstore News

Superbly well executed...like all good collections this is more than the sum of its parts. I wolud recommend it to all women's studies students -in the U.S.A., Canada, and Australia -not to mention Europe.

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