| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 218 pages) |
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Feminist genealogies: connecting women's lives -- Women's situation, I: the material constraints of femininity -- Women's situation, II: existential experiments with the feminine -- Love in exile: reading the memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine de Stael -- A feminist search for love: Emma Goldman on the politics of marriage, love, sexuality, and the feminine -- Maternal genealogies and feminist consciousness: Simone de Beauvoir on mothers, daughters, and political coalitions -- Wanting it all: contemporary struggles for freedom and fulfillment |
| Summary |
Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the lives and theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir in light of and alongside contemporary feminist work, to examine the significance that being a woman and the material conditions of femininity thrust upon one based on the times in which one lives had on their lives and work. These historical women are often valorized as thinkers and intellectuals, whose private lives are deemed irrelevant at best, and degrading as worst, or are the subjects of biographies that ignore their political cont |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2024) |
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Feminists -- Biography
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Feminists -- Social conditions
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Feminism.
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Femininity.
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Women's studies -- Biographical methods.
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Feminism
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feminism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Femininity
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Feminism
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Feminists
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Women's studies -- Biographical methods
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Feministin
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Frauenbewegung
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Biografische Methode
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Intellectuelen.
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Feministen.
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Feministin -- Lebenssituation -- Biographie.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203960561 |
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0203960564 |
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9781135525125 |
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1135525129 |
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9781135525194 |
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1135525196 |
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9781135525262 |
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1135525269 |
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1281065285 |
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9781281065285 |
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