This text offers a ground-breaking history of feminism, inviting a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world. This is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles.

An exploration of the major questions currently challenging feminist scholars of science. The authors ask key questions: What constitutes science? How have feminists investigated it? How does science 'construct' women? How can we create a feminist discourse of science? Are the current developments to women's advantage or disadvantage?

Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s. Among the central themes addressed are: the origins of women's subordination; the private/public split; the nature and the role of domestic labour; the impact of psychoanalysis on feminist theory; the relationship between the State and women's subordination. One of the book's purposes is to draw together strands of thought and debate often kept separate.

Throughout, the major theoretical developments in Britain, the United States and Australia are reviewed within a...

A collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that characteristics generally considered to be 'feminine' are in fact cultural constructions within a patriarchal order.Routledge Library Editions re-issue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with Routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This volume explores two of the key questions that have been systematically raised by the Women's Liberation Movement: why have women occupied a subordinate position in society and how can the variation in the forms and intensity of their exploitation and oppression be explained?

A study of feminist issues, this book fights a battle on two fronts: against the view that little or nothing is wrong with women's position, and at the same time against much current feminist dogma.

Incorporating autobiography as well as reflections on relations between mothers and daughters, psychoanalysis, feminist theorising, race, and modernist political theories and philosophies, renowned feminist theorist Jane Flax brings together eight of her most recent essays in this title.

What do men feel about the women's movement? How has it changed them, if at all? To try and answer these questions this volume draws upon research in Britain, the US and Australia, interviewing men from all social groups - business executives, writers, factory workers, shopkeepers - and all ages, from 15 to 53.

This text discusses how two decades of feminism have affected the ways men define their own masculinities, and how they have responded in their own social, sexual and political lives to the challenges posed by the evolving feminist critiques of patriarchy and maleness itself.Routledge Library Editions re-issue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with Routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centurys

This lively collection of essays sets out to theorise and practice a 'materialist-feminist' criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society.Routledge Library Editions re-issue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with Routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centurys