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Title: Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions by Josephine Donovan ISBN: 0-8264-1248-3 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: an ambitiously encyclopedic introduction
Comment: I read the book over a decade ago, the 1985 edition. I still regard it as a great introduction to feminist theory. The book was very condensed and so not easy to read at times, as Donovan tried to compress a review of like 200 books plus historical details into some 200 pages, necessarily making the review highly abstract. But it was very worth it precisely for the breadth. It was also very good for reference because she seems to have read every piece of feminist writing ever produced. The greatest strength of the book, I think, is in her classification: liberal, cultural, marxist, psychoanalytic, existential, radical and contemporary cultural feminism. It clarifies a lot of non-sense in the media, since the attack on feminists by conservatives frequently devolves around a confusion between liberal and cultural feminism. I think the best way to classify feminist theories, however, is to make two fundamental orientations, liberal feminism and cultural feminism, and then subsume all theoretical sub-orientations (marxist, psychoanalytic, existentialist, radical, semantico-structural, and the care-ethic type) under cultural feminism as its diversification. That is a suggestion. Another thing about feminist theory is that it is very peculiarly Modern and Western, and more specifically American. The subtitle "The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism" is very signficant, and this cultural and epochal relativity is an essential aspect of feminist theory that should be explored. Also the relationship -- or rather the disjuncture -- between feminist theory and women's movement is not explored. While many women are breaking glass ceilings in American society, very little of them have any knowledge of "feminist theories", and the theorists themselves, mostly working at universities, are getting loftier in their theoretical world. The most impact they made seems to be in the restructuration of universities, but not beyond. This is a very interesting phenomenon that, along with the first, should receive some attention in such a comprehensive introduction as Donovan's.
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Title: Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words (Research and Scholarship in Composition, 6) by Susan Carole Funderburgh Jarratt, Lynn Worsham ISBN: 0873525868 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.75 |
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Title: The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism (Routledge Companions) by Sarah Gamble ISBN: 0415243106 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness by Ruth Frankenberg ISBN: 0816622582 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Min-Ha, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, T. Minh-Ha Trinh, Minh Ha Trinh T ISBN: 0253205034 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.80 |
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Title: Reading Minds by Mark Turner ISBN: 0691001073 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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