This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize 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. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and considers the connection between ideology and cultural practice, and the ways in which all relations of power change with changing social and economic conditions. By presenting a wide range of work by...

Designed precisely with feminist researchers in mind, 'Feminist Praxis' gives detailed analytic accounts of particular examples of feminist research, showing how feminist epistemology can translate into concrete feminist research practices.

Designed for students of social policy and women's studies, this text gives a readable account of feminist ideas about women and welfare. The authors draw on feminist theory, research and analysis to explore women's experiences of welfare, and the debates within feminism on how and why the welfare state oppresses women.

This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas's theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and normativity.

'Gendered Subjects' combines a number of classic statements on feminist pedagogy from the 1970s with recent original essays making significant and original contributions to the field.

This is a book for all women writers, professional, amateur or aspiring, in which forty women talk about writing and the part it plays in their lives. Self-discovery, work, personal liberation, communication, hope for change - all these motives inspire these short and direct personal statements. The contributors come from very different backgrounds: some, like Sara Maitland, Rosemary Manning, Anna Livia, Suniti Namjoshi, are well known. Others are unpublished. In Other Words will provide practical support and encouragement for any woman who writes.

This innovative introductory text not only explains Kristeva's most difficult ideas, but also provides insights into her work. All Kristeva's key concepts are covered, and new interpretations are offered of the 'chora', 'Oedipus' and 'abjection', as well as 'revolt' and the 'feminine genius'.

This volume examines an important but under-researched area - the relationships of wives to their husbands' work. It looks both at the way women's lives are directly affected by the work their husbands do and how they can get drawn into it. These it sees as the two sides of wives' 'incorporation'.

This volume, comprised of essays by both men and women, is a controversial sally in the current debate over the future of feminist theory. Each essay attempts to assess the benefits or damage of male participation in feminism; several of the contributions stand in direct dialogue with others.

The authors show us how social observers seek to 'reinstate' America and American values in ways that, overtly or covertly, do battle with the feminist movement for control of rhetoric, the power of language.