Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction

by Tong,Rosemarie

• ISBN13: 9780415078740
• ISBN10: 0415078741
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1989-07-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this survey of feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides coverage of the psychoanalytic, existential and postmodern schools of feminism. The author guides the reader through thinkers such as Wollstonecraft, Engel, de Beauvoir, Dinnerstein, Daly, Mitchell and Cixous.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction the varieties of feminist thinking Liberal feminism the roots of liberal feminism

Historical development of liberal-feminist thought

Critiques of liberal feminism

Conclusion Marxist feminism

Some Marxist concepts and theories: their feminist implications

Friedrich Engels: the origin of the family, private property, and the state

Contemporary Marxist feminism

Critiques of Marxist feminism

Conclusion Radical feminism on reproduction and mothering Reproduction: curse of boon?

Mothering: love it or leave it?

Conclusion Radical feminism on gender and sexuality Biological sex and patriarchal gender

Feminist sexuality

Pornography as symptom and symbol of male-controlled female sexuality

Lesbianism as paradigm for female-controlled female sexuality

Critiques of radical feminism

Conclusion Psychoanalytic feminism the roots of psychoanalytic feminism

Standard feminist critiques of Freud

Pursuing psychoanalysis in feminist directions

Conclusion Socialist feminism Dual-systems theory

Critiques of dual-systems theories

Toward a unified-systems theory

Critiques of unified-systems theories

Conclusion Existentialist feminism Sartre's Being and Nothingness: a backrop to the Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir: existentialism for woman

Critiques of existentialist feminism

Conclusion Postmodern feminism

Some major influences on postmodern feminist thought

Postmodern feminism: three perspectives

Critique of postmodern feminism

Conclusion

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