This introduction presents, in a readable, lively style, an overview of feminism as an essentially contested field of theory and political engagement. Renee Heberle offers readers a unique approach to studying feminisms in the plural, combining historical and theoretical perspectives on the academic and political lives of the term “feminism.” While the popular imagination identifies feminism in the singular with political activity about women’s rights, this book introduces readers to diverse, historically significant, critical perspectives and interventions. Heberle’s approach demonstrates the ongoing relevance of feminisms to contemporary political thinking and practice. This book will be particularly useful in upper-division undergraduate classrooms and introductory courses at the graduate level of study. It is written in an accessible narrative form that will also appeal to the non-academic reader.

Key Features:

Reviews the historiography of the term “feminism” and perspectives and activism associated with the term.
Introduces feminisms for their value in understanding complex dynamics of domination and power from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Explains differences among self-identified feminists as thinkers and activists historically and in the contemporary moment.
Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of feminisms as complex and contested field of theories and practices
Discusses contemporary work by Brittney Cooper, Sarah Ahmed, Nevedita Menon, and Veronica Gago to set up questions about how/why each contemporary author identifies as a feminist and what they describe as feminism.
Shows how integral feminisms have become to academic, institutional and public understandings of historical and contemporary events and dynamics.

Feminisms: The Basics is a fresh introduction to our understanding of feminisms and feminist theories.

About the Author

Renee Heberle is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toledo. She co-directs the interdisciplinary major Law and Social Thought and is affiliated faculty with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She was the coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program at the University of Toledo from 2010 to 2024. Her research interests focus on feminist political theory, state violence, and sexual violence. Her publications include: Theorizing Sexual Violence, co-edited with Victoria Grace (Routledge 2009) and Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (Penn State Press 2006). She has published several essays about sexual violence in feminist journals Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and in the Oxford Handbooks on Gender, Sex and Crime (2014) and Feminist Theory (2016). Her most recent work “Can Masculinity Survive the End of Sexual Violence?” is included in Gaby Zipfel, Regina M�hlh�user, and Kirsten Campbell (eds.), In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

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