WOST 24000 Power, Pleasure and Patriarchy:Rethinking the Feminist Sex Wars

Seeks to explore the meaning of feminism today and how the term postfeminism affects our understanding of gender roles. This source combines a series of in-depth back-ground chapters with A-Z entries to provide a guided view of this subject.

This abridgment of The Glossary of Feminist Theory is tailored specially to students, providing the terms that they will most commonly encounter.

This succinct handbook includes more than 1,000 entries covering the persons, organizations, campaigns and court cases, goals and achievements, and current and future directions of the feminist movement, 75 percent of which are new and revised from the first edition. An expanded chronology and a thoroughly revised and updated bibliography round out this comprehensive reference.