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This book calls for a reassessment of feminism's relationship to modern humanism. It argues that despite its very thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to humanist values.
List of contents
1 Feminism and humanism, 2 The antinomies of the Age of Enlightenment, 3 Quest for the self: feminism's appropriation of Romanticism, 4 Freedom and the encumbered self: feminism's changing relations with liberalism, 5 Feminism and critique: from Marx to Habermas, 6 Feminist alternatives and postmodernism
About the author
Pauline Johnson is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics (1984).
Summary
This book calls for a reassessment of feminism's relationship to modern humanism. It argues that despite its very thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to humanist values.
