Alison Assiter is Head of Social Studies at the University of Luton. She is the author of Althusser and Feminism and Pornography, Feminism and the Individual as well as co-editor of Bad Girls, Dirty Pictures.

'A well-grounded defence of feminist principles through a considered, reasoned conversation with postmodernism.' - Red Pepper

• Introduction 1 The Flight from Universals 2 Irigaray, Lacan and Derrida 3 Realism and Anti-Realism 4 Irigaray and the Self 5 Feminist Epistemological Communities 6 Feminism and Morality 7 Essentialism and Universalism Revisited 8 A Critique of Constructivist Accounts of Sexuality

Alison Assiter is Head of Social Studies at the University of Luton. She is the author of Althusser and Feminism and Pornography, Feminism and the Individual as well as co-editor of Bad Girls, Dirty Pictures.

'A well-grounded defence of feminist principles through a considered, reasoned conversation with postmodernism.' - Red Pepper

• Introduction 1 The Flight from Universals 2 Irigaray, Lacan and Derrida 3 Realism and Anti-Realism 4 Irigaray and the Self 5 Feminist Epistemological Communities 6 Feminism and Morality 7 Essentialism and Universalism Revisited 8 A Critique of Constructivist Accounts of Sexuality