Selection of over 140 readings in women's studies in fourteen sections: feminist social theory: psychological and psychoanalytic theory: cross-cultural and historical perspectives on women's lives: education and work: marriage and motherhood: sexuality: the law: crime and deviance: politics and the state: science, medicine and reproductive technology: language and gender: feminist literary criticism: representations of women in the media.
Interdisciplinairy reader containing extracts from past and present feminist writers that give a perspective on the variety of feminisms emerged in the twentieth century. Contains a glossary of key terms.