A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory [Paperback]

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• Introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the past 35 years.
  
• Guides students along the cutting edge of current feminist theory.
  
• Suitable for students and scholars of all fields touched by feminist thought.
  
• Covers an exceptionally broad range of disciplines, discourses and feminist positions.
  
• Organised around concepts rather than schools of feminism.

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1
Mary Eagleton

1 Place and Space 11
Linda McDowell

2 Time 32
Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson

3 Class 53
Rosemary Hennessy

4 ‘Race’ 73
Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Meg Coulson

5 Sexuality 93
Rey Chow

6 Subjects 111
Chris Weedon

7 Language 133
Sara Mills

8 Literature 153
Mary Eagleton

9 The Visual 173
Griselda Pollock

10 Feminist Philosophies 195
Rosi Braidotti

11 Cyberculture 215
Jenny Wolmark

12 Feminist Futures 236
Sara Ahmed

Select Bibliography 255