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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Diversity of Feminist Thinking | |
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| Liberal Feminism | |
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| Conceptual Roots of Liberal Feminist Thought and Action | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Thought: Equal Education | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Thought: Equal Liberty | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Action: The Suffrage | |
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| Twentieth-Century Action: Equal Rights | |
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| Twentieth-Century Thought: Sameness Versus Difference | |
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| Contemporary Directions in Liberal Feminism | |
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| Critiques of Liberal Feminism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Radical Feminism: Libertarian and Cultural Perspectives | |
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| Libertarian and Cultural Views on the Sex/Gender System | |
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| Some Libertarian Views on Gender | |
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| Some Cultural Views on Gender | |
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| Sexuality, Male Domination, and Female Subordination | |
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| The Pornography Debate | |
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| The Lesbianism Controversy | |
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| Reproduction, Men, and Women | |
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| Radical-Libertarian and Radical-Cultural Views on Mothering | |
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| Critiques of Radical-Libertarian and Radical-Cultural Feminism: Beyond Polarization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Marxist and Socialist Feminism: Classical and Contemporary | |
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| Some Marxist Concepts and Theories | |
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| Classical Marxist Feminism: General Reflections | |
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| Contemporary Socialist Feminism: General Reflections | |
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| Women's Labor Issues | |
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| Critiques of Marxist and Socialist Feminism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Psychoanalytic and Care-Focused Feminism | |
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| Psychoanalytic Feminism: Focus on Freud | |
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| Feminist Critiques and Appropriations of Freud | |
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| Psychoanalytic Feminism: Focus on Lacan | |
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| Bridges Between Psychoanalytic and Care-Focused Feminists | |
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| The Roots of Care-Focused Feminism: Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings | |
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| Maternal Ethics and the Ethics of Care | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Existentialist and Postmodern Feminism | |
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| Sartre's Being and Nothingness: A Backdrop to The Second Sex | |
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| Simone de Beauvoir�s Existentialism for Women | |
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| Critiques of Existentialist Feminism: A Communitarian Critique of Existentialist Feminism | |
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| Postmodern Feminism | |
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| Postmodernism/Postmodern Feminism: Keynotes | |
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| Critiques of Postmodern Feminism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Women of Color Feminisms | |
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| From Multiculturalism to Intersectionality | |
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| Women of Color Feminisms in the United States | |
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| Women of Color Feminisms on the World Stage: Global, Postcolonial, and Transnational Feminisms | |
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| Critiques of Women of Color Feminisms | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Ecofeminism | |
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| Some Roots of Ecofeminism | |
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| Ecofeminism: New Philosophy or Ancient Wisdom? | |
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| Tensions in Nature: Ecofeminist Thought | |
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| Spiritual Ecofeminism | |
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| Transformative Ecofeminism | |
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| Global Ecofeminism | |
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| Vegetarian Ecofeminism | |
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| Critiques of Ecofeminism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |