Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity
The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women
- 240 pages
- English
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Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity
The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women
About this book
Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." This fascinating interdisciplinary study focuses on how feminist thinkers throughout history have long striven to balance politics, intellectual work, and the material conditions of femininity. Taking a close look at this quest for an integrated life in the autobiographical and theoretical writings of well-known feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir, alongside contemporary counterparts, like Azar Nafisi, Audre Lorde, and Ana Castillo, Marso moves beyond questions of who women are and what women want, adding an innovative personal dimension to feminist theory, showing how changing conceptions of femininity manifest themselves within all women's lives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Feminist Genealogies: Connecting Women’s Lives
- 2. Women’s Situation, I: The Material Constraints of Femininity
- 3. Women’s Situation, II: Existential Experiments with the Feminine
- 4. Love in Exile: Reading the Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine de Staël
- 5. A Feminist Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the Feminine
- 6. Maternal Genealogies and Feminist Consciousness: Simone de Beauvoir on Mothers, Daughters, and Political Coalitions
- 7. Wanting It All: Contemporary Struggles for Freedom and Fulfillment
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Endnotes
- Index