Feminist moments : reading feminist texts / edited by Susan Bruce and Katherine Smits.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Susan Bruce and Katherine Smits -- 1. A feminist-historical citadel: Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies / Nadia Margolis -- 2. Anne Bradstreet and the seventeenth-century articulation of 'the female voice' / Susan Bruce -- 3. Mary Astell's critique of marriage practices / Patricia Springborg -- 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the women's coffee house / Vicki A. Spencer -- 5. Justice and gender in revolution: Olympe de Gouges speaks for women / Joe Zizek -- 6. Radical spirituality and reason in Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the Rights of Woman / Kari Lokke -- 7. Giving voice to feminist political theory: the radical discourse of Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson / Jim Jose -- 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally": anger, narrative and unaccountable sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre / Alexandra Lewis -- 9. 'Something akin to freedom": Harriet Jacobs and the feminist tradition / Susan Hays Bussey -- 10. On the enslavement of women's minds: John Stuart Mill's The subjection of women / Katherine Smits -- 11. German maternalist socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress / Catherine Dollard -- 12. How turn of the century feminism finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" / Shirley Samuels -- 13. Ecology and virtue in Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Sultana's Dream / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- 14. Nazira Zeineddine: pioneer of Islamic feminism / Miriam Cook -- 15. Virginia Woolf: genre-bending and feminist life writing: A Room of One's Own / Amber K. Regis -- 16. 'Your sister in the 'gator and the 'gator in your sister': judgement in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Glends R. Carpio -- 17. 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman': the sex-gender distinction and Simone de Beauvoir's Account of woman: The Second Sex / Céline Leboeuf -- 18. Betty Friedan's feminist critique of suburban domesticity / Rebecca Jo Plant -- 19. 'Writing as re-vision': female creative agency in the poetry of Adrienne Rich / Claire Hurley -- 20. Complicity and resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse / Helen Pringle -- 21. Before her eyes: on Luisa Valenzuela's Bedside Manners / Valeria Wagner -- Postscript: feminist revisions of political thought / Susan Bruce and Katherins Smits.

"The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Nazira Zeineddine, Betty Friedan, Andrea Dworkin and Luisa Valenzuela. The volume is unique in offering close readings of key passages from the selected texts, making it ideal for classroom use; its original essays, all authored by specialists, will also be of interest to more advanced scholars. In juxtaposing and analysing a wide range of texts which despite their significance are rarely discussed together, Feminist Moments provides a fascinating historical narrative of feminist thought which will be highly valuable to students and scholars of the history of political thought, political philosophy and gender and literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"Feminism has fundamentally changed the ways in which we think about politics - in terms of representation, normative values, power relations and our very understanding of what the political means. These questions are not simply the product of late 20th century thinking. They build on a long and varied historical traditional of feminist writing. This volume examines some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, selected from both literary and analytical works, from the work of women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition. It is unique in offering close readings of short and highly pertinent passages in the texts selected, making it ideal for classroom use and for those progressing from texts offering a more general overview. Essays are included on a range of authors who have made significant contributions to feminist discourse but are not frequently anthologised, including Rachel Speght, Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Maria Stewart and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain"-- Provided by publisher.