Feminism (Pocket Essential series)

✍ Scribed by Susan Osborne

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 97
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Feminism has been one of the most important and radical movements in ideas and in society over the last 40 years. Yet the roots of modern feminist and post-feminist thought stretch back much further than the 1960s. This Pocket Essential looks at the important names in the history of feminism, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Germaine Greer, and at the most significant texts, from John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth. It explores the history of feminist thought and the wide range of debate and discussion in contemporary feminism.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
1. Feminism: A Short History......Page 8
The American suffrage movement......Page 19
The British suffrage campaign and the emergence of the 'new woman'......Page 20
America......Page 27
Britain......Page 28
Abortion - the right to choose......Page 31
Equal Pay for equal work......Page 32
The backlash debate......Page 34
Sexual Harassment......Page 35
Inclusivity......Page 36
2. Key Feminist Texts......Page 38
The Wanderer or Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney (1814)......Page 50
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)......Page 51
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)......Page 52
The Women's Room by Marilyn French (1977)......Page 53
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)......Page 54
Other Books of Interest......Page 55
Olympe de Gouges (1745 - 1793)......Page 57
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797)......Page 58
Hannah More (1745 - 1833)......Page 60
William Thompson (1785 - 1833)......Page 62
Lucretia Mott (1793 - 1880)......Page 63
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)......Page 65
Lucy Stone (1818 - 1893)......Page 68
Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)......Page 70
Josephine Butler (1828 - 1906)......Page 72
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 - 1928)......Page 74
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928)......Page 77
Clara Zetkin (1857 - 1933)......Page 79
Eleanor Rathbone (1878 - 1946)......Page 81
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)......Page 83
Betty Friedan (1921 - )......Page 86
Gloria Steinem (1934 - )......Page 87
Germaine Greer (1939 - )......Page 90
Andrea Dworkin (1946 - )......Page 91
Susan Faludi (1959 - )......Page 93
Greenham Common Women (1981 - 2000)......Page 94
The Essential Library......Page 97