
Feminism is currently at an impasse. Both the liberation feminism of the 1970's and the more recent feminism of difference are increasingly faced with the limitations of their own perspectives. While feminists today generally acknowledge the need to recognise diversity, they...

This book calls for a reassessment of feminism's relationship to modern humanism. It argues that despite its very thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to humanist values.

This book calls for a reassessment of feminism's relationship to modern humanism. It argues that despite its very thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to humanist values.

The author of this book argues that feminism must come to recognize itself as a type of humanism. The book throws light upon both feminist theory and the historical ideal of humanism. The author's aim is to reclaim humanism, in both Enlightenment and Romantic forms, for feminist...