This is the first comprehensive collection of feminist politics and writings by the most influential feminists of the twentieth century, with a full glossary of key terms, section introductions, and entries on individual writers. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Betty Friedan, Gayle Rubin, Laura Mulvey, Elaine Showalter, and Julia Kristeva. Modern Feminisms covers key feminist ideas and perspectives on the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture, and representation, and provides a persepective on the variety of modern feminisms that have emerged in the twentieth century.

Perfect for... individual students of twentieth-century feminist thought, this book contains seventy-plus excerpts from the classic works of writers from America, Britain, and France. Feminist Bookstore News

Maggie Humm is a professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London and the author of many widely translated books, including Border Traffic, The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (the first edition of which was named an "outstanding academic book").