
By Lori Marso
ISBN-10: 0415979269
ISBN-13: 9780415979269
ISBN-10: 0415979277
ISBN-13: 9780415979276
Examining the lives and paintings of ancient and modern feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the calls for of Femininity explores the feminist fight to "have it all." This interesting interdisciplinary examine specializes in how feminist thinkers all through historical past have lengthy striven to stability politics, highbrow paintings, and the cloth stipulations of femininity. Taking a detailed examine this quest for an built-in existence within the autobiographical and theoretical writings of recognized feminists akin to Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir, along modern opposite numbers, like Azar Nafisi, Audre Lorde, and Ana Castillo, Marso strikes past questions of who ladies are and what girls wish, including an leading edge own size to feminist thought, displaying how altering conceptions of femininity occur themselves inside of all women’s lives.