This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Explores the political and intellectual context in which Eleanor Rathbone wrote, the impact of her ideas on feminist theory today, and on the women with whom she lived and worked. The book traces Rathbone's life and ideas as a political activist and as an

This text explores the ideas of the influential lesbian feminist poet, Adrienne Rich, covering such topics as: feminist struggles; the focus on the body; the spiritual continuity of women's history; and the dynamic between poetry as language and poetry as a kind of action.