This book invites us to wrestle honestly with the issues and possibilities of contemporary feminism. Hester Eisenstein brings a persuasive optimism to her analy

Details developments in feminist theory since 1970, with chapters on aspects such as feminist social theory, political theory, and jurisprudence, black feminism

Within much contemporary feminist theory there is a tendency to forget or ignore its own historicity and consider itself as primarily oriented towards the prese

Outlines the main features of major strands in contemporary second wave feminist thought, and debates the place of feminism in social, political, and personal l

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