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This stimulating text presents a concise and accessible introduction to feminist theory today. Covering all the major variants of feminist political thought, it offers a unique examination of the archive of modern feminist theory from the publication of
The Feminine Mystique in 1963 to current postmodernist and legal feminist texts. It provides both an intellectual history and a political critique of contemporary feminism in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Judith Evans focuses on the divergence within, as well as between, feminist schools, and on protests from women marginalized by `the movement¿ - including those who are lesbian and those who are black.
Feminist Theory Today contends that the early feminist demand for radical equality has gone, contributing to its drastic undertheorization. While brilliantly reconceptualizing this concept, the author documents the changes in socialist feminism from its revolutionary origins to its current focus on modifying liberal democratic forms.
Sommario
Introduction
Equality and Difference in Feminist Thought
Early Liberalism
Feminism¿s First Equality
Essential Tensions? Liberal Feminism¿s Second Stage
Radical Equality
The Early Fire
Cultural Feminism
Feminism¿s First Difference
Woman¿s Kindness
Cultural Feminism¿s Second Face
Socialist Feminism
From Androgyny to Gynocentrism, Equality to Difference
The Postmodernist Challenge
The Legal Challenge
Conclusion and Afterthoughts
Info autore
Judith Evans is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. She is co-editor (with Jill Hills, Karen Hunt, Elizabeth Meehan, Tessa Ten Tusscher, Ursula Vogel and Georgina Waylen) of Feminism and Political Theory (Sage, 1986).
Riassunto
This exploration of the theories of contemporary feminism covers all the major variants of feminist political thought, from the "traditional" schools of the women's movement - particularly radical, liberal and socialist - to today's postmodern texts.
