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Over the past fifteen years, feminist theory has raised a number of important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. This volume, the first in the Oxford Reading in Feminism series, collects together seventeen outstanding articles, reflections of the diversity and strengths of current feminist thinking about science.

Feminism challenges both the theory and practice of politics, opening up ways of thinking about political change. This volume deals with various aspects of feminism and politics, covering political studies, political theory, interests and representation, identities and coalitions, equality and anti-discrimination, and citizenship.

This collection of essays seeks to expand the parameters of the debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from a divisive framework, the book explores what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, work within it, and to those engaged in changing its meaning.

Feminism and Race brings together a wide range of writings on 'race', racism, and feminism that have been published in the past two decades. It aims to provide readers with an overview of the history of these debates as well as to suggest future directions for feminist scholarship and practice in this field.

Demonstrates that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual.

Feminism and the Body presents classic texts in feminist body studies. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, the volume touches on the medical history of sexual differences, the political history of the body, the history of clothing and its cultural meanings, symbolic renderings of the body, male bodies, and the body in colonial and cross-cultural contexts.

Many assume that tumultuous debate in the last decades of the 20th century left women with a clear-cut choice - either faith or feminism. The essays in this collection suggest otherwise; women continue to feel at once drawn to and rejected by traditional religions. The volume emphasises both Christian and Jewish feminist writings in theology.

This collection of essays examines the role of feminist research in the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline, and traces the developments in theory, criticism and practices of women and cinema since 1973, detailing the contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged.

This collection brings together seventeen essays by well-known feminist scholars across the disciplines that make up Renaissance Studies. It forms an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract 'Renaissance Man' of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender in the formation of European modernity.

This edited collection of essays explores the ways in which we can interpret past philosophical texts from a feminist perspective. Drawn together within a chronological framework, pieces by leading feminist critics, such as Luce Irigaray and Martha Nussbaum, reveal the fresh perspectives that feminism can offer to the discussion of past philosophers.

Contains articles addressing questions on feminism and cultural studies. This book is organised thematically, and addresses commodification, women and labour, mass culture, fantasy, and ideas of home. It is useful to students and researchers in the humanities, particularly in the fields of cultural studies and women's studies.

This reader provides an international mixture of the best classic foundational pieces and recent key works that investigate masculinity from a feminist perspective. The chapters examine a wide range of topics including gay liberation, the men's movement, black and working-class masculinities, homophobia and the Internet.

This volume presents a multi-disciplinary feminist exploration into the public and the private, a central issue in feminist theory for over 30 years . Feminism, the Public and the Private is an essential guide to feminist thought for students and teachers of women's and gender studies, cultural studies, history, political theory, geography and sociology.

How have women been defined in different historical circumstances? This volume contains articles written over the period of contemporary feminist theory, providing a critical analysis of, and historical context for, the ways in which women and sexual differences have been represented.

This collection brings together seventeen essays by well-known feminist scholars across the disciplines that make up Renaissance Studies. It forms an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract 'Renaissance Man' of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender in the formation of European modernity.