Imelda Whelehan is Dean of Graduate Research school at the University of Western Australia.

… a good introduction to the subject for a general reader.

• Part 1 Generating the second wave: liberal feminism - the origins of the second wave; marxist/socialist feminism - reconstucting male radicalism; radical feminism - redefining politics; Lesbian feminism - exploding "Heteroreality"; black feminism - reimaging "Woman" and "Equality". Part 2 Crisis in feminism?: crisis in feminism? - feminist debates in the eighties and nineties; sites of fissure - putting the politics of personal to the test; men in feminism - feminism and postmodernism; identity crisis? - "Post-feminism", the media and "Feminist Superstars".

Imelda Whelehan is Dean of Graduate Research school at the University of Western Australia.

… a good introduction to the subject for a general reader.

• Part 1 Generating the second wave: liberal feminism - the origins of the second wave; marxist/socialist feminism - reconstucting male radicalism; radical feminism - redefining politics; Lesbian feminism - exploding "Heteroreality"; black feminism - reimaging "Woman" and "Equality". Part 2 Crisis in feminism?: crisis in feminism? - feminist debates in the eighties and nineties; sites of fissure - putting the politics of personal to the test; men in feminism - feminism and postmodernism; identity crisis? - "Post-feminism", the media and "Feminist Superstars".

Imelda Whelehan is Dean of Graduate Research school at the University of Western Australia.

… a good introduction to the subject for a general reader.

• Part 1 Generating the second wave: liberal feminism - the origins of the second wave; marxist/socialist feminism - reconstucting male radicalism; radical feminism - redefining politics; Lesbian feminism - exploding "Heteroreality"; black feminism - reimaging "Woman" and "Equality". Part 2 Crisis in feminism?: crisis in feminism? - feminist debates in the eighties and nineties; sites of fissure - putting the politics of personal to the test; men in feminism - feminism and postmodernism; identity crisis? - "Post-feminism", the media and "Feminist Superstars".