Introducing Feminism

✍ Scribed by Cathia Jenainati

• Publisher: Totem Books
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 180
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a brand new illustrated guide to the history, ideas and practice of feminism. The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day. By highlighting the key social, political and literary ideas which have determined our thinking about the status of women across the globe, this book tells the story of remarkable individuals who actively challenged and changed traditions, social customs and laws. "Introducing Feminism" is an invaluable reference book for anyone seeking the story of how feminism reconfigured the world for women and men alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Title
......Page 3
Copyright
......Page 4
What is Feminism?......Page 5
What is Patriarchy?......Page 6
Biology is Destiny......Page 7
Logic or Emotion?......Page 8
Early Modern Feminist Activity......Page 10
Reinterpreting the Bible......Page 12
"To the Ladies"......Page 14
Early Perspectives......Page 15
The Age of Reason......Page 16
Social Planners......Page 17
Competing Perspectives......Page 19
The Rise of Individualism......Page 20
First Wave Feminism......Page 22
Remembering the Ladies......Page 24
Mary Wollstonecraft......Page 26
An Unconventional Life......Page 27
Against Rousseau......Page 29
Sense and Sensibility......Page 30
The Divine Right of Husbands......Page 32
The Grimké Sisters......Page 34
The "Cult of Domesticity", 1820-80......Page 37
Rules of Conduct for Men and Women......Page 40
Harriet Taylor Mill......Page 42
Theory and Practice......Page 44
A Panoply of Servants......Page 46
"Man" or "Person"?......Page 47
Caroline Norton......Page 49
Coverture......Page 50
The Infant Custody Act......Page 51
The Matrimonial Causes Act......Page 52
Catherine Helen Spence......Page 54
Seneca Falls Convention, New York 1848......Page 55
A Declaration of Independence......Page 57
The Advent of the Bloomers......Page 58
The 1850s in the USA......Page 59
The International Council of Women......Page 60
The 1850s in Britain......Page 62
Barbara Bodichon......Page 64
Langham Place......Page 66
Emmeline Pankhurst......Page 68
The Woman's Social and Political Union......Page 69
Militant Suffragettes......Page 70
Women's Suffrage in Australia......Page 72
Suffrage Gains Momentum......Page 74
Against Suffrage......Page 75
The First Backlash......Page 76
Feminism = Lesbianism?......Page 77
Educated but Under-employed......Page 78
The Lost Sex......Page 79
Virginia Woolf......Page 80
A Room of One's Own......Page 81
Guineas and Locks......Page 82
"I have no country ..."......Page 83
Simone de Beauvoir......Page 84
Existence Precedes Essence......Page 85
Milestones of Second Wave Feminism......Page 87
Second Wave Feminism......Page 88
The Women's Liberation Movement......Page 89
The Personal is Political......Page 90
The Seven Demands of the WLM......Page 91
Betty Friedan......Page 92
The Feminine Mystique......Page 93
Motherhood Before Career?......Page 94
The Feminist Mystique......Page 96
C-R and Rap......Page 97
Varieties of Feminisms......Page 98
Socialist Feminism......Page 100
Traditional Marxist Feminism......Page 102
Radical Feminism......Page 103
Ecofeminism......Page 106
Psychoanalytic Feminism......Page 108
Postfeminism......Page 109
Protest and Revolt......Page 110
A Black Miss America......Page 113
Germaine Greer......Page 114
Shulamith Firestone......Page 116
Reproduction, not Production......Page 117
Consuming for Capitalism......Page 118
Kate Millet......Page 119
The Sex/Gender Hierarchy......Page 120
Misogyny in Literature......Page 121
Ann Oakley......Page 122
Subject Women......Page 124
Gynocriticism......Page 126
Psychoanalysis and Feminist Thought......Page 128
"The Reproduction of Mothering"......Page 130
Mermaids and Minotaurs......Page 131
Separation from the Mother......Page 133
Adrienne Rich......Page 135
Gyn/Ecology......Page 137
The 1980s......Page 138
Black Women's Experience of Feminism......Page 139
Early Expressions of Black Feminism......Page 141
A'n't I a Woman?......Page 142
Frances Harper......Page 144
The Combahee River Collective......Page 146
bell hooks......Page 149
Alice Walker......Page 150
Popular Fiction in the 1980s......Page 152
The Power of Romance......Page 154
Feminism and Pornography......Page 155
Feminism and the Body......Page 157
The Beauty Myth......Page 160
The Grotesque......Page 162
Feminism and the Question of Gender......Page 164
Deconstructive Feminism......Page 165
Men Back at Centre Stage?......Page 166
Girl Power......Page 167
Feminism and the Developing World......Page 168
The Subaltern......Page 170
Challenging Rituals......Page 171
What is Feminism?......Page 172
Milestones......Page 173
Further Reading......Page 175
Acknowledgements......Page 176
Index......Page 177
Completelist of titles......Page 179
Back Cover
......Page 180