Table of Contents

Contributors Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies by Nadia Margolis 2. Anne Bradstreet and the seventeenth-century articulation of ‘the female voice’ by Susan Bruce 3. Mary Astell’s Critique of Marriage by Patricia Springborg. 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women’s Coffee House by Vicki Spencer 5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women by Joseph Zizek 6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Kari Lokke 7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Wheeler and William Thompson By Jim Jose 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by Alexandra Lewis 9. ‘Something Akin to Freedom’: Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition by Susan Hays Bussey 10. On the Enslavement of Women’s Minds: John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women by Katherine Smits 11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress by Catherine Dollard 12. ‘How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”’ by Shirley Samuels 13. Ecology and Virtue in Roquia Sakhawat Hussain’s Sultana’s Dream by Maitrayee Chaudhuri 14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism by Miriam Cooke 15. Virginia Woolf, genre-bending, and feminist life-writing: A Room of One’s Own by Amber Regis 16. “Your sister in the ’gator and the ’gator in your sister”: Judgment in Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God by Glenda R. Carpio 17. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’. The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir’s Account of Woman: The Second Sex by Céline Leboeuf 18. Betty Friedan’s Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity by Rebecca Jo Plant 19. ‘Writing as Re-Vision.’ Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck by Claire Hurley 20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse by Helen Pringle 21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela’s Bedside Manners (Realidad nacional desde la cama) By Valeria Wagner Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index

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Feminist Moments offers close readings of key moments in the pivotal texts which have shaped the history of feminist thought, spanning literary and analytical sources.

About the Author

Katherine Smits is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Reconstructing Postnationalist Liberal Pluralism (2005) and Applying Political Theory (2009). Susan Bruce is Professor of English at Keele University, UK. She is editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1999) and Fiction and Economy (2007).