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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101474230393

ISBN-139781474230391

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Number of Pages240 Pages

Publication NameFeminist Moments : Reading Feminist Texts

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Subjects & Themes / Women, Women in Politics, Political Ideologies / General, Political

TypeTextbook

AuthorKatherine Smits

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science

SeriesTextual Moments in the History of Political Thought Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.9 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2015-015247

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal305.4209

Table Of ContentContributors 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 Brontë'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 Céline 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

SynopsisThe 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., This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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., Feminism has fundamentally changed the ways in which we think about politics - in terms of representation, normative values, power relations and our very understanding of what the political means. These questions are not simply the product of late 20th century thinking. They build on a long and varied historical traditional of feminist writing. This volume examines some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, selected from both literary and analytical works, from the work of women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition. It is unique in offering close readings of short and highly pertinent passages in the texts selected, making it ideal for classroom use and for those progressing from texts offering a more general overview. . .Essays are included on a range of authors who have made significant contributions to feminist discourse but are not frequently anthologised, including Rachel Speght, Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Maria Stewart and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain.

LC Classification NumberPN56.F46