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What is feminism today? Why are we pluralizing it more and more? Why do we talk about feminisms? These questions might seem elementary, or even superfluous, but they confer a certain sense to a conglomerate of debates and positions linked to the multiple dimensions of a worldwide political and filosophical formulation.

Intro -- FEMINISM -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION ON FEMINISM -- Chapter 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMINIST SOCIAL THEORY -- Chapter 3 EARLY FEMINISM -- DURKHEIM, MARX AND WEBER - GENDER IMPLICATIONS -- THE RISE AND CONSOLIDATION OF FEMINIST SOCIAL THEORIES -- Modernity and Gender -- Chapter 4 CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM -- The Ageing Body and Gender -- Chapter 5 CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Intro -- Title Page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1| THE WORLD MUST BE CHANGED, APPARENTLY -- 2| ARE YOU A MISOGYNIST IF YOU ONLY HATE FEMINISTS? -- 3| WHAT IS FEMINISM IN THE MODERN ERA? -- 4| MISANDRY (THE HATRED OF MEN) -- 5| HOW FEMINISTS VIEW THE WORLD: WELCOME TO THE GRIM WORLD OF DUALISM -- 6| WHY MEN HAVE NIPPLES, AND MY SEX CHANGE STORY -- 7| ARE FEMINISTS LESS INTELLIGENT THAN NORMAL WOMEN? -- 8| WHY ARE FAT WOMEN FAT? -- 9| ARE FEMINISTS LESS ATTRACTIVE THAN NORMAL WOMEN? -- 10| DO FEMINISTS SUFFER FROM PPS (PERMANENT PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME)? -- 11| FEMINISM: THE TRIUMPH OF EMOTION OVER REASON? -- 12| THE DIFFERENT NATURES OF MEN AND WOMEN -- 13| THE DENIAL OF THE DIFFERENT NATURES OF MEN AND WOMEN -- 14| FEMININITY -- 15| FEMINIST THEORY: BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR -- 16| FEMINIST ACADEMICS AND MANGINAS -- 17| TOM MARTIN -- 18| BIG FAT FEMINIST MYTHS AND LIES: FEMALE SOLIDARITY AND FEMINIST REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN -- 19| ARE FEMINISTS DELUSIONAL? IS THE POPE A CATHOLIC? DO BEARS CRAP IN WOODS? -- 20| THE EVOLUTION OF NAGGING -- 21| WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT TO COMPLAIN, BUT DO FEMINISTS ABUSE THE PRIVILEGE? -- 22| ARE FEMINISTS DEPRESSED AS WELL AS DEPRESSING? -- 23| POLITICS AND FEMINISM: AN EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE -- 24| WHY DO LEFTIES NEVER LEARN? -- 25| SHOULD WE TREAT FEMINISTS AS WE TREAT OTHER DIFFICULT PEOPLE? -- 26| WHY IS FRANCE ALMOST A FEMINIST-FREE COUNTRY? -- 27| THE LADIES FAWCETT -- 28| ARE SOME FEMINISTS (E.G. TRACEY EMIN) A PAIN IN THE ARTS? -- 29| DOES HARRIET HARMAN SUFFER FROM MAD COW DISEASE? -- 30| CAUTION: WOMEN AT WORK -- 31| HOW FEMINISTS ARE KILLING MEN AND WOMEN -- 32| THE FEMINISATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM -- 33| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON MEN -- 34| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON WOMEN -- 35| THE LESBIAN FEMINIST ASSAULT ON HETEROSEXUALITY -- 36| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON MARRIAGE.

'Feminism' wrote Marie Shear in 1986, 'is the radical notion that women are people'. But, simple and powerful though this definition is, feminism is not a single, clear narrative. It doesn't begin with a specific event at a particular moment in time, it can't be identified with any one political organization or movement, and it isn't defined by the contributions of a handful of great thinkers. Here, Professor Deborah Cameron unpicks the various strands that constitute one of history's most important intellectual and political movements. In her clear and incisive account, she discusses oppression, sexuality, violence, academic theory and practical activism, shows how feminism can be a way of viewing the world and provides an overview of its history. In an era of #metoo, pay gap scandals and online harrassment, it's impossible to deny that gender inequality is a fact of life. And as long as that continues to be true, we will need to understand and engage with the ideas and history of the feminist movement

The aim of this article is to introduce a mother-centred mode of feminism—what I have called "matricentric feminism"—to consider the context and challenges of a mother-centred feminist theory and politics, and to suggest directions for future research. Motherhood, it could be said, is the unfinished business of feminism. Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers' needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politics on and for women's empowerment. This repositioning is not to suggest that a matricentric feminism should replace traditional feminist thought; rather, it is to emphasize that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women's roles and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a matricentric mode of feminism organized from and for their particular identity and work as mothers. Indeed, a mother-centred feminism is needed because mothers—arguably more so than women in general—remain disempowered despite forty years of feminism. My work does not rationalize or defend the need for a mother-centred feminism, as it takes it as a given. Instead, this article endeavours to describe and discuss this mode of mother-focused feminism, which has emerged as a result of and in response to women's specific identities andwork as mothers.