In the past decade there has been an explosion of feminist theory - in many cases depending on theoretical foundations borrowed from men. Andrea Nye critically examines the ambivalent relationship between feminists and male theory.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Designs of Feminist Theory;
Chapter 2
Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité: Nineteenth-century Liberalism and Women's
Rights;
Chapter 3 A Community of Men: Marxism and Women;
Chapter 4 A World
Without Women: The Existentialist Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir;
Chapter 5
The Analysis of Patriarchy;
Chapter 6 A Woman's Language;
Chapter 7 The
Theory of Feminist Practice;
Andrea Nye is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. She is also the author of Words of Power (Routledge, 1990).