Feminism and its discontents

Mari Jo Buhle reveals that the twentieth century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other. Starting with Freud's 1909 speech to an audience that included the feminist and radical Emma Goldman, Buhle recounts all the twists and turns this exchange took in the United States up to the recent American vogue of Jacques Lacan. While chronicling the contributions of feminism to the development of psychoanalysis, she also makes an intriguing case for the benefits psychoanalysis brought to feminism. Buhle charts the history of feminism from the first wave in the 1910s to the second in the 1960s and into a variety of recent expressions.

First sentence: In 1909, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, Sigmund Freud joined other renowned scholars and delivered a series of lectures on psycho-analysis.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Editions

1

Pages

452

ISBN

9780674004030

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