Pauline Johnson is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics (1984).

• 1 Feminism and humanism, 2 The antinomies of the Age of Enlightenment, 3 Quest for the self: feminism's appropriation of Romanticism, 4 Freedom and the encumbered self: feminism's changing relations with liberalism, 5 Feminism and critique: from Marx to Habermas, 6 Feminist alternatives and postmodernism

Pauline Johnson is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics (1984).

• 1 Feminism and humanism, 2 The antinomies of the Age of Enlightenment, 3 Quest for the self: feminism's appropriation of Romanticism, 4 Freedom and the encumbered self: feminism's changing relations with liberalism, 5 Feminism and critique: from Marx to Habermas, 6 Feminist alternatives and postmodernism

Pauline Johnson is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics (1984).

• 1 Feminism and humanism, 2 The antinomies of the Age of Enlightenment, 3 Quest for the self: feminism's appropriation of Romanticism, 4 Freedom and the encumbered self: feminism's changing relations with liberalism, 5 Feminism and critique: from Marx to Habermas, 6 Feminist alternatives and postmodernism