1st Edition

Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man

By Andrea Nye Copyright 1988

    In the past decade there has been an explosion of feminist theory - in many cases depending on theoretical foundations borrowed from men. Andrea Nye critically examines the ambivalent relationship between feminists and male theory.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Designs of Feminist Theory; Chapter 2 Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité: Nineteenth-century Liberalism and Women's Rights; Chapter 3 A Community of Men: Marxism and Women; Chapter 4 A World Without Women: The Existentialist Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir; Chapter 5 The Analysis of Patriarchy; Chapter 6 A Woman's Language; Chapter 7 The Theory of Feminist Practice;

    Biography

    Andrea Nye is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. She is also the author of Words of Power (Routledge, 1990).