British Feminist Thought: A Reader - Softcover

Ann Phoenix; Christina Loughran; Juliet Mitchell; Elizabeth Wilson; Joanna Ryan; Cora Kaplan; Toril Moi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631169156 ISBN 13: 9780631169154

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

Companion volume of French Feminist Thought , including 22 articles by experts in different fields on such subjects as history, literary theory, Northern Ireland, and race, each section prefaced by an editor's introduction.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book covers the history of British feminist thought in a representative selection of essays on major themes by influential feminists in the British tradition. It shows that feminist thought in Britain has a clear identity, arising from its particular political and social formations. This identity is usefully compared throughout with the American and European traditions of feminist thought.

The book moves from a consideration of feminist history, through the unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism, issues of race and class, psychoanalysis, the family and housework, to the peculiarly British phenomenon of feminist criticism and research existing within the context of cultural studies. The case of Northern Ireland as an issue within British feminist thought is given particular attention. Terry Lovell's introductions to each section put the essays in their British political and international intellectual context.

About the Author:

Terry Lovell is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick, where she teaches courses in women's studies and cultural studies. She is author of Pictures of Reality and Consuming Fiction, a feminist study in the historical sociology of the novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631169156
• ISBN 13: 9780631169154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Terry Lovell