The Second Wave

Nicholson, Linda

ISBN 10: 0415917611 / ISBN 13: 9780415917612

Published by Routledge (edition First Edition), 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Second Wave
• Publisher: Routledge (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415917611
• ISBN 13: 9780415917612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have generated extensive discussion. Organized historically, these essays provide a sense of the major turning points in feminist theory.

Contributors include: Norma Alarcon, Linda Alcoff, Michele Barrett, Elsa Barkley Brown, Judith Butler, Nancy Chodorow, Patricia Hill Collins, Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Nancy Fraser, Carol Gilligan, Heidi Hartmann, Nancy C. M. Hartsock, Luce Irigaray, Catharine MacKinnon, Uma Narayan, Linda Nicholson, Ellen Rooney, Gayle Rubin, Gayatri Spivak, Wendy W. Williams and Monique Wittig.

About the Author

Linda Nicholson is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Albany. She is the author of Gender and History (1986), editor of Feminism/Postmodernism (Routledge, 1990) and the co- editor with Steven Seidman of SocialPostmodernism. She is editor of Routledge's ThinkingGender series.