feminism
Additional Reading
Alice S. Rossi (ed.), The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir (1973, reprinted 1988), collects the key works of the last 200 years of feminism. Rosemarie Putnam Tong, Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd ed. (1998), provides a comprehensive map of 20th-century feminist thinking that includes liberal, radical, Marxist-socialist, postmodern, and multicultural feminism. Perspectives from around the world are portrayed in Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, and Jean F. O'Barr (eds.), Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present (1997), a representation of women from 30 countries; and Marlene LeGates, Making Waves: A History of Feminism in Western Society (1996), a comprehensive survey of feminism in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America dating from early Christian times to the present. Texts focusing on feminism in the United States include Jane Rendall, The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France, and the United States, 1780–1860 (1984, reissued 1990), which examines the political and social position of women in a comparative context in order to locate the sources of women's rebellion; while Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, enlarged ed. (1996), is the classic history of the complex social and political problems that confronted 19th- and early 20th-century American suffragists. Questions of class and culture are treated in M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (eds.), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1997), which challenges mainstream notions of global feminism and embeds the struggles of women in the Third World in the struggle against neocolonialism; while Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism (1997), shows how both Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Karen Offen, European Feminisms, 1700–1950: A Political History (2000), looks at the development of European feminism from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century.Contents of this article:
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·Introduction
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·History of feminism
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·Contemporary feminism in the West
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·The globalization of feminism
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·Additional Reading
