SAGE BENCHMARKS IN CULTURE & SOCIETY

SAGE Benchmarks in Culture & Society presents four-volume collections of key classic and contemporary articles on the substantive interdisciplinary topics at the heart of the social sciences. This series explores core topics of research and debate, including cultural theory, representation, identity, popular music and material culture. Each set presents a full contextualizing introduction by the editor and draws upon articles that map out each topic's history and debates, and its theory and methods.

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The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of the contributions to feminist scholarship that went on to become internationally significant hailed from Europe and the United States, these works were often formed within the context of local debates and framed within traditions of feminism and other political engagements specific to these nations.A...