Bücher der Reihe Oxford Readings in Feminism

Over the past fifteen years, feminist theory has raised a number of important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. This volume, the first in the Oxford Reading in Feminism series, collects together seventeen outstanding articles, reflections of the diversity and strengths of current feminist thinking about science.

Feminism challenges both the theory and practice of politics, opening up ways of thinking about political change. This volume deals with various aspects of feminism and politics, covering political studies, political theory, interests and representation, identities and coalitions, equality and anti-discrimination, and citizenship.

This collection of essays seeks to expand the parameters of the debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from a divisive framework, the book explores what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, work within it, and to those engaged in changing its meaning.

Demonstrates that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual.

Many assume that tumultuous debate in the last decades of the 20th century left women with a clear-cut choice - either faith or feminism. The essays in this collection suggest otherwise; women continue to feel at once drawn to and rejected by traditional religions. The volume emphasises both Christian and Jewish feminist writings in theology.

This edited collection of essays explores the ways in which we can interpret past philosophical texts from a feminist perspective. Drawn together within a chronological framework, pieces by leading feminist critics, such as Luce Irigaray and Martha Nussbaum, reveal the fresh perspectives that feminism can offer to the discussion of past philosophers.

This reader provides an international mixture of the best classic foundational pieces and recent key works that investigate masculinity from a feminist perspective. The chapters examine a wide range of topics including gay liberation, the men's movement, black and working-class masculinities, homophobia and the Internet.