Why Feminism?
Gender, Psychology, Politics

aeoA comprehensive and lively exploration of feminism in the contemporary world. aeo Examines the shifts in feminist thinking from the emergence of womana s Liberation through to the present day. aeo Provides a vigorous defence of feminism but criticizes some of more a fashionablea accounts of gender relations.

This major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

Preface. Introduction: Why Feminism?. 1. Generations of Feminism. 2. Gender to Queer, and Back Again. 3. Genes and Gender: The Return to Darwin. 4. Psychic Life and its Scandals. 5. Gender Anxieties at the Limits of Psychology. 6. Cautionary Tales: Between Freud and Feminism. 7. Only Contradictions on Offer: Feminism at the Millennium. Notes. Index.