Feminism
Order Description
“Feminism is a white middle class ideology and cannot liberate women from other backgrounds.” Discuss
2000 words
The essay must incorporate source material for a range of books, articles and, where appropriate,
the www. Under no circumstances reference lecture notes, slides, or email exchanges, nonacademic
blogs, or Wikipedia. Do not rely on textbooks. Students are expected to demonstrate that
they have read widely on the relevant literature for the topic. An essay with only a limited number of
references indicates to the marker a student has not properly read the literature.
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form part of the overall assessment of your essay.
You may use either the Harvard or footnoting system of referencing, however, in each case it must
match exactly the referencing style set out in the style guide placed on Moodle. Failure to do so will
mean marks lost.
Feminism
? M. Barrett (2014) Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist / Feminist Encounter, London: Verso.
? V. Bryson (1992) Feminist Political Thought: An Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
? J. Butler (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, London: Routledge.
Available online: https://autof.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/butler-judith-gender-troublefeminism-and-the-subversion-of-identity-1990.pdf
? D. Coole (1993) Women in Political Theory, 2nd ed., London: Prentice-Hall.
? D. Coole (2001) `Threads and plaits or an unfinished project? Feminism(s) through the twentieth
century, in M. Freeden (ed.) Reassessing Political Ideologies, Routledge: Oxford.
? hooks, b. (2000) Feminism is for Everyone, Cambridge, MA: South End Press. Available online:
https://excoradfeminisms.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bell_hooksfeminism_is_for_everybody.pdf
? hooks, b. (nd.) Understanding Patriarchy:
http://imaginenoborders.org/pdf/zines/UnderstandingPatriarchy.pdf
? J.S. Mill (1869) The Subjection of Women. Available online:
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/mill1869.pdf
? J. Mitchell & A. Oakley (eds.) (1986), What is feminism?,London: Wiley-Blackwell.
? V. Randall (2001) `Feminism and Political Analysis’ Political Studies, 39 (3): 513-532.
? S. Rowbotham, L. Segal & H. Wainwright (2012) Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making
and Socialism, London: The Merlin Press.
? V. Solanas (2004) Scum Manifesto, London: Verso.
? N. Waters (1999) The New Feminism, London: Virago.
? N. Waters (2005) Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
? M.Wollstonecraft (1792) A Vindication of the Rights of Women with strictures on Political and
Moral subjects. Available online:
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/wollstonecraft1792.pdf