A Feminist Reader 4 Volume Set: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (4 Vol Set) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521513812 ISBN 13: 9780521513814

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Modern feminism has deep roots. Over the past 2500 years, female writers and thinkers across the world have expressed their feelings about gender roles, their frustrations and successes, their struggles for equality. This four-volume anthology brings together the richest collection of feminist texts available with over 120 entries, most of them complete essays or chapters, arranged broadly chronologically. Readers can juxtapose seventeenth-century 'New World' feminist writing with European counterparts, historical with poststructuralist feminist writing, Asian with Anglophone voices and 'difference feminism' with universalist statements. Each text features an editorial headnote and annotation, while the general introduction sets feminism in its historical and global contexts. The anthology's inclusion of multiple genres - letters and poems as well as philosophical or polemical prose - offers new possibilities for the study of genre and feminist discourse.

About this title

Book Description

Reproducing 2500 years of feminist writing across national borders and genres (essays, letters, poems, manifestos), this anthology is at once a reference, resource and revelatory book. Each text is annotated and introduced in its context and texts are brought together afresh to stimulate thinking about the development of feminist thought.

About the Author

Sharon M. Harris is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut.

Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521513812
• ISBN 13: 9780521513814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1904
• Editor: Harris Sharon M., Hughes Linda K.