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The second wave : a reader in feminist theory / edited by Linda Nicholson.

Title
The second wave : a reader in feminist theory / edited by Linda Nicholson.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Nicholson, Linda J.
Description
x, 414 p.; 27 cm.
Summary
After reading this compilation of essays the reader should have a sense of the diverse directions that feminist theoreticians have taken over the last 40 years. Contributors include Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak.
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents
"Introduction" to The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- The dialectic of sex / Shulamith Firestone -- The traffic in women : notes on the "political economy" of sex / Gayle Rubin -- A black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective -- The equality crisis : some reflections on culture, courts, and feminism / Wendy W. Williams -- The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism : towards a more progressive union / Heidi Hartmann -- Capitalism and women's liberation / Michèle Barrett -- Feminism and Marx : integrating kinship with the economic / Linda Nicholson -- The woman identified woman / Radicalesbians -- Sexuality / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- The psychodynamics of the family / Nancy Chodorow -- Woman's place in man's life cycle / Carol Gilligan -- The feminist standpoint : developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- Defining black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig -- "What has happened here" : the politics of difference in women's history and feminist politics / Elsa Barkley Brown -- The theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcón -- Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler -- "This sex which is not one" / Luce Irigaray -- Cultural feminism versus post-structuralism : the identity crisis in feminist theory / Linda Alcoff -- "In a word" : interview / Gayatri Spivak with Ellen Rooney -- Structuralism or pragmatics? : on discourse theory and feminist politics / Nancy Fraser -- Contesting cultures : "Westernization," respect for cultures, and Third-World feminists / Uma Narayan.
ISBN
  • 0415917603 (hb)
  • 9780415917605 (hb)
  • 0415917611 (pb)
  • 9780415917612 (pb)
LCCN
^^^96025168^
OCLC
  • 34990042
  • SCSB-10458728
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library