Feminisms: A Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745009247 ISBN 13: 9780745009247

Publisher: Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992

Synopsis

This major textbook for women's studies provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to feminist ideas and perspectives on issues such as the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture and representation. It brings together over seventy key excerpts.

About this title

Synopsis

This is a collection of writings which reflects feminist models created from a broad mix of interdisciplinary research, teaching and debate. These models are intended to transform knowledge while sustaining a politics which challenges the oppressive treatment of women. The excerpts represented here draw upon critical, polemical and creative prose writings in English, from Virginia Woolf to Adrienne Rich. It includes a selection from the pioneering works of Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millett and Betty Frieden, as well as statements and documents from black, white and women of colour feminist writers in contemporary Britain, America and France. It is intended that the book introduce the reader to the main feminist ideas and perspectives on such issues as the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture and representation.

About the Author

Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745009247
• ISBN 13: 9780745009247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Humm Maggie