Overview

This first major study of feminist theory, revised and updated here in its fourth edition, now takes the reader into the twenty-first century.

It addresses the basic question, "What is feminism?" by outlining the various strands of feminist theory: liberal, cultural, Marxist-socialist, Freudian, and radical.

This fourth edition brings the discussion up-to-date, integrating the developments in feminist theory that have emerged in the last two decades, such as ecofeminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, and global feminism—including new material since the publication of the third edition (2000).