ISBN:
0415979277
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0415979269
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9781281065285
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9781135525125
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 218 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity : The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women
DDC:
305.42092/2
Keywords:
Women's studies Biographical methods
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Feminism
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Feminists Social conditions
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Femininity
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Feminists Biography
Abstract:
Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the lives and theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir in light of and alongside contemporary feminist work, to examine the significance that being a woman and the material conditions of femininity thrust upon one based on the times in which one lives had on their lives and work. These historical women are often valorized as thinkers and intellectuals, whose private lives are deemed irrelevant at best, and degrading as worst, or are the subjects of biographies that ignore their political cont
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Feminist Genealogies: Connecting Women's Lives; 2. Women's Situation, I: The Material Constraints of Femininity; 3. Women's Situation, II: Existential Experiments with the Feminine; 4. Love in Exile: Reading the Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine De Staël; 5. A Feminist Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the Feminine
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Maternal Genealogies and Feminist Consciousness: Simone De Beauvoir on Mothers, Daughters, and Political Coalitions7. Wanting It All: Contemporary Struggles for Freedom and Fulfillment; Conclusion; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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