Radical Feminism Today
First Edition
- Denise Thompson - University of New South Wales, Australia
June 2001 | 176 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Radical Feminism Today offers a timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Author Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as `feminism' and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of `women', `gender', `difference' or `race//gender//class'. She challenges some of the most widely accepted ideas about feminism and in doing so opens up a number of hitheto closed debates, allowing for the possibility of moving those debates further.
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING FEMINISM
Defining Feminism
Ideology
Ideology
PART TWO: MISUNDERSTANDING FEMINISM
Feminism Undefined
Other Definitions
`Difference'
Differences among Women
What Does It Mean to Call Feminism `White and Middle-Class'?
Masculinity and Dehumanization