In seven essays analyzing contemporary strands in women's narratives, Curti (English, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) explores the seams between feminist theory and postmodernism, Anglo-American and continental feminist theories, gender and genre, reality and fiction, and the poetical an
In recent years, as environmentalists have examined the link between women's subordination and the degradation of our natural world, the relationship between feminism and ecology has become a crucial one. In Feminism and Ecology, Mary Mellor, tracing ecofeminist activism from the Love Canal demonstrations to socialist ecofeminism, provides a ......
In recent years, as environmentalists have examined the link between women's subordination and the degradation of our natural world, the relationship between feminism and ecology has become a crucial one. In Feminism and Ecology, Mary Mellor, tracing ecofeminist activism from the Love Canal demonstrations to socialist ecofeminism, provides a ......
By all accounts, feminist theology is at a crossroads. Even as long-standing consensus wanes that women's experience is the source and norm of feminist theology, the specific and often contradictory experience ofdifferent groups are now highlighted, and new theoretical frameworks are emerging. This landmark volume explores central issues of ......
This volume explores the interplay between theory, epistemology and practical methodological decisions in research, and the challenges that the resultant dilemmas present to feminist researchers. Other themes are: the interaction between "law" and "expert" knowledge; how researchers make sense of contradictory narratives as part of academic ......
This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new' body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ......
... innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than mutually exclusive." -Lambda Book Report When feminism meets queer theory, no introductions seem necessary. The two share common political interests-a ......
... provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." -Iris ... a very important contribution to the literature on ecological feminism." -Ethics I think the unique collection of so many different perspectives will help to push readers out of their disciplinary views and ......
An examination of women's self-defense culture and its relationship to feminism. I was once a frightened feminist. So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self- defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for feminist theory and activism. Unprecedented ......
