Feminist moments : reading feminist texts / edited by Susan Bruce and Katherine Smits.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruce, Susan, editor.

Smits, Katherine, editor.

Series:

Textual moments in the history of political thought.

Textual moments in the history of political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Feminist literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Nazira Zeineddine, Betty Friedan, Andrea Dworkin and Luisa Valenzuela. The volume is unique in offering close readings of key passages from the selected texts, making it ideal for classroom use; its original essays, all authored by specialists, will also be of interest to more advanced scholars. In juxtaposing and analysing a wide range of texts which despite their significance are rarely discussed together, Feminist Moments provides a fascinating historical narrative of feminist thought which will be highly valuable to students and scholars of the history of political thought, political philosophy and gender and literary studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Contributors

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / by Nadia Margolis

2. Anne Bradstreet and the seventeenth-century articulation of 'the female voice' / by Susan Bruce

3. Mary Astell's Critique of Marriage / by Patricia Springborg

4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women's Coffee House / by Vicki Spencer

5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women / by Joseph Zizek

6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman / by Kari Lokke

7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Wheeler and William Thompson / by Jim Jose

8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre / by Alexandra Lewis

9. 'Something Akin to Freedom': Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition / by Susan Hays Bussey

10. On the Enslavement of Women's Minds: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women / by Katherine Smits

11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress / by Catherine Dollard

12. 'How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"' / by Shirley Samuels

13. Ecology and Virtue in Roquia Sakhawat Hussain's Sultana's Dream / by Maitrayee Chaudhuri

14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism / by Miriam Cooke

15. Virginia Woolf, genre-bending, and feminist life-writing: A Room of One's Own / by Amber Regis

16. "Your sister in the 'gator and the 'gator in your sister": Judgment in Zora Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God / by Glenda R. Carpio

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 / by C line Leboeuf

18. Betty Friedan's Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity / by Rebecca Jo Plant

19. 'Writing as Re-Vision.' Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck / by Claire Hurley

20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse / by Helen Pringle

21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela's Bedside Manners (Realidad nacional desde la cama) / by Valeria Wagner Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought

Suggestions for Further Reading

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781474230414

1474230415

9781474230407

1474230407

9781474237970

1474237975

OCLC:

922893624

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access