This volume attempts to locate feminism/s within historical and critical perspectives, and provides a broad framework within which to locate the possible politics of feminism. It traces the trajectory of feminism, from a movement for the rights of women to the possibility of an 'organic revolution', and from the renegotiations of the 'woman question' by early feminists and suffragists to the critical interventions of ecofeminists and lesbian feminism.

The author

Arpita Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor, Department of English and Culture Studies, University of Burdwan, West Bengal.

The editor

Sumit Chakrabarti is Associate Professor, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata.

Editor’s Preface

Introduction

1. Early Feminists

2. Simone de Beauvoir and Radical Feminism

3. Cultural Feminism and Gynocriticism

4. Marxist and Socialist Feminism

5. Postmodern Feminism

6. L’écriture Féminine

7. Black Feminism

8. Postcolonial Feminism and Third World Feminism

9. Ecofeminism

10. Lesbian Feminism

11. Feminist Criticism in Practice

Glossary of Select Terms

Suggested Reading