Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontologyand Epistemology Liz Stanley, Sue Wise Routledge Londonand New York 1983 From the introduction: Breaking Out explores feminist research and feminist consciousness, specifically around the topic of methodology and its relationship to the production of feminist knowledge about the world. In the late 1970s the term ‘methodology’ was used rather differently…
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Sexual Textual Politics: FeministLiterary Theory Toril Moi Routledge Londonand New York 1985 What are the political implications of a feminist, critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole? Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of…
Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography Diana E.H. Russell (ed) Teachers College Press 1993 Making Violence Sexy chronicles women’s resistance to pornography over the last twenty years. It does this in a collection of feminist articles, including testimonies by victims/survivors of pornography that together make a convincing case for the view that pornography (as…
The Politics of Reality: Essaysin Feminist Theory Marilyn Frye Crossing Press 1983 The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory is a 1983 collection of feminist essays by philosopher Marilyn Frye. Some of these essays, developed through speeches and lectures she gave, have been quoted and reprinted often, and the book has been described as…
Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse Rosemary Hennessy Routledge Londonand New York 1993 Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking ‘woman’ as a discursively constructed subject. The book looks at the problem of examining critically the social dimensions on which theories of discourse are premised:…
The Rights and Wrongs of Women Juliet Mitchell, Ann Oakley (eds) Penguin Books 1976 Are the rights of women any more recognized today than they ever were, and are their wrongs any less? The authors of this book – historians, sociologists, educationalists and literary critics – have, from many different political positions, set out to…