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1 online resource (224 pages). |
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Textual moments in the history of political thought
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Textual moments in the history of political thought.
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Christine de Pizan: The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) Nadia Margolis -- 2. Rachel Speght: A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) Helen Wilcox -- 3. Anne Bradstreet: Poems (1670s) Susan Bruce -- 4. Mary Astell: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest (1694) Patricia Springborg -- 5. Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) Vicki Spencer -- 6. Olympe de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Women (1791) Joe Zizek -- 7. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) Barbara Taylor -- 8. Anna Wheeler and William Thompson Appeal on Behalf of Women (1825) Jim Jose -- 9. Maria Stewart: a selection from her published lectures (early 1830s) Valerie Cooper -- 10. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847) Alexandra Lewis -- 11. John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women (1869) Katherine Smits -- 12. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Shirley Samuels -- 13. Clara Zetkin: a selection from one of her published speeches (1890s -- 1930) Marilyn Boxer -- 14. RoquiaSakhawatHussain: Sultana's Dream (1905) Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- 15. Nazira Zain al'Din: Veiling and Unveiling (1928) Miriam Cook -- 16. Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (1929) Amber Regis -- 17. Sylvia Pankhurst: The Suffragette Movement (1931) Karen Hunt -- 18. Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes were Watching God (1937) Glenda Carpio -- 19. Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (1949) Nancy Bauer -- 20. Adrienne Rich: Poems (1970s) Sabine Sielke -- 21 Andrea Dworkin: Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981) Helen Pringle -- 22. Luisa Valenzuela: Short Story to be advised (1999 to date) Valeria Wagner -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Naz. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Feminism -- History.
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Feminism. |
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History. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Bruce, Susan, 1960- editor.
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Smits, Katherine, editor.
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| ISBN |
1474230407 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1474237975 |
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9781474237970 |
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9781474230407 (electronic book) |
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