Table of contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction The varieties of feminist thinking Liberal feminism The roots of liberal feminism; Historical development of liberal-feminist thought; Critiques of liberal feminism; Conclusion Marxist feminism Some Marxist concepts and theories: their feminist implications; Friedrich Engels: The origin of the family, private property, and the state; Contemporary Marxist feminism; Critiques of Marxist feminism; Conclusion Radical feminism on reproduction and mothering Reproduction: curse of boon?; Mothering: love it or leave it?; Conclusion Radical feminism on gender and sexuality Biological sex and patriarchal gender; Feminist sexuality; Pornography as symptom and symbol of male-controlled female sexuality; Lesbianism as paradigm for female-controlled female sexuality; Critiques of radical feminism; Conclusion Psychoanalytic feminism The roots of psychoanalytic feminism; Standard feminist critiques of Freud; Pursuing psychoanalysis in feminist directions; Conclusion Socialist feminism Dual-systems theory; Critiques of dual-systems theories; Toward a unified-systems theory; Critiques of unified-systems theories; Conclusion Existentialist feminism Sartre's Being and Nothingness: a backrop to The Second Sex; Simone de Beauvoir: existentialism for woman; Critiques of existentialist feminism; Conclusion Postmodern feminism Some major influences on postmodern feminist thought; Postmodern feminism: three perspectives; Critique of postmodern feminism; Conclusion