Feminist Theory, Fourth Edition: The Intellectual Traditions

by Josephine Donovan

Overview

This first major study of feminist theory, revised and updated here in
its fourth edition, now takes the reader into the twenty-first century.
It addresses the basic question, "What is feminism?'' by outlining the
various strands of feminist theory: liberal, cultural, Marxist-socialist,
Freudian, and radical. This fourth edition brings the discussion up-to-date,
integrating the developments in feminist theory that have emerged in the
last two decades, such as ecofeminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism,
and global feminism-including new material since the publication of the
third edition (2000).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441173256
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/08/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	462 KB

About the Author

Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Maine, USA. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including the groundbreaking Feminist Theory (Continuum, 3rd ed, 2000), Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (St. Martin's Press, 1999), and After the Fall (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).

Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Maine, USA. She is the author or editor of 13 books, including Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (2d. rev. ed., 2013), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, After the Fall (1989), and The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics (2007, co-edited with Carol J. Adams). Her groundbreaking Feminist Theory (first published, 1985; fourth edition, 2012), which was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and described as “the classic survey and analysis of the roots and development of feminist theory,” has been translated into Chinese, Turkish, and Japanese.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition (2012)
Preface to the First Edition (1985)

1. Enlightenment Liberal Feminism
2. Nineteenth-Century Cultural Feminism
3. Feminism and Marxism
4. Feminism and Freudianism
5. Feminism and Existentialism
6. Radical Feminism
7. The Moral Vision of Twentith-Century Cultural Feminism
8. Into the Twenty-First Century

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index