Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230521746 ISBN 13: 9780230521742

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

This revised and expanded edition, new in paperback, provides a definitive collection on the current period in feminism known by many as the "third wave". Three sections--genealogies and generations, locales and locations, politics and popular culture--interrogate the wave metaphor and, through questioning the generational account of feminism, indicate possible future trajectories for the feminist movement. New to this edition are an interview with Luce Irigaray, a foreword by Imelda Whelehan as well as newly commissioned chapters.

About the Author:

STACY GILLIS is a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, UK. She has published on third wave feminism, cybersex, cybertheory and popular
modernisms. The co-editor of the Journal of International Women's
Studies special issue on Third Wave Feminism and Women's
Studies (April 2003), and The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film (2001), her forthcoming work includes the collection The Matrix: Cyberpunk Roloaded (2005). She is currently working on a study of detective fiction and World War One and an account of (un)popular feminisms.

GILLIAN HOWIE is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK and Director of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research. She is the author of Deleuze and Spinoza: Aura of  Expressionism (2002), the editor of Women: A Cultural Review's special issue on Gender and Philosophy (2003), and co-editor of Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education (2001) part of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research conference series.

REBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She has published articles on Angela Carter, the Gothic and third wave feminism, and is the co-editor of the Journal of International Women's Studies special issues on Third Wave Feminism and Women's Studies (2003). Her current research projects include a book-length study of twentieth-century women writers and the Gothic, and an exploration of (un)popular feminisms.

Review:

'This expanded second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism' is an unexpected pleasure. While much work on 'the third wave' is ahistorical, nationally-bounded and analytically bankrupt, here the editors bring together an impressive range of articles living up to the volume's subtitle of 'critical exploration'. The anthology provides a historically and conceptually grounded background to the area, highlights the limits as well as possibilities of generational approaches, and constitutes a politically diverse, international set of reflections on the terrain. Essential reading.' - Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics

'This is an excellent and important book that left me, as Imelda Whelehan puts it at the end of her foreword, "once again caring that I am a feminist, whatever the era.'' - Alice Ridout, Contemporary Women's Writing