Feminist Theorists

Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers

Plot

Essays describe the background and ideas of major feminists, from Aphra Benn and Mary Wollstonecraft to Vera Brittain and Simone de Beauvoir

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Aphra Behn : a scandal to modesty (1640-1689) / Angeline Goreau
Mary Astell : inspired by ideas (1668-1731) / Joan K. Kinnaird
Mary Wollstonecraft : sexuality and women's rights (1759-1797) / Miriam Brody
Harriet Martineau : a reassessment (1802-1876) / Gaby Weiner
Margaret Fuller : feminist writer and revolutionary (1810-1850) / Marie Mitchell Olesen Urbanski
Barbara Bodichon : integrity in diversity (1827-1891) / Jacquie Matthews
Lucy Stone : radical beginnings (1818-1893) / Leslie Wheeler
Matilda Joslyn Gage : active intellectual (1826-1898) / Lynne Spender
Josephine Butler : from sympathy to theory (1828-1906) / Jenny Uglow
Hedwig Dohm : passionate theorist (1833-1919) / Renate Duelli-Klein
Millicent Garrett Fawcett : duty and determination (1847-1929) / Ann Oakley
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : the personal is political (1860-1935) / Ann J. Lane
Emma Goldman : anarchist queen (1869-1940) / Alix Kates Shulman
Olive Schreiner : new women, free women, all women (1855-1920) / Liz Stanley
Vida Goldstein : the women's candidate (1869-1949) / Gaby Weiner
Christabel Pankhurst : reclaiming her power (1880-1958) / Elizabeth Sarah
Alice Paul : the quintessential feminist (1885-1977) / Jean L. Willis
**Virginia Woolf : the life of natural happiness (1882-1941) / Naomi Black
**Vera Brittain : feminist in a new age (1896-1970) / Muriel Mellown
Mary Ritter Beard : women as force (1876-1958) / Ann J. Lane
Simone de Beauvoir : dilemmas of a feminist radical (1908- ) / Mary Evans
Modern feminist theorists : reinventing rebellion / Dale Spender