Feminist Thought - Patricia Clough

This book is a review of some of the main variations of feminist theorizing since 1970. It charts the ways in which feminist thought has reconfigured the relationship between desire, power and academic discourse. It shows how feminist theorists have profoundly challenged the assumptions of social science, freely crossing disciplinary boundaries and giving shape to a new social criticism concerned not only with sexual difference, but also with the differences of race, class, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality.

Patricia Ticineto Cloughs absorbing and timely account of a quarter century of feminist thought necessarily focuses on several key texts, from Kate Milletts Sexual Politics (1970) to Judith Butlers Gender Trouble (1990), but it casts its net wide and considers a rich tradition of feminist theorizing across a wide range of academic disciplines.