Introduction to Women's Studies    Week 13
Feminist Theories

The Feminist Theory web site: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/

Philosophy and Feminist Theory links: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/philos.htm

John and Harriett Taylor Mill

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, 1869: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/jsmill-women.html

From the Encyclopedia of Marxism, a short biography of John Stuart Mill: http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/m/i.htm

A short biography of Harriet Taylor Mill and some of the Mill's texts: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wtaylor.htm

A short biography of Harriet Taylor Mill: http://www.womenofhistory.com/bio1htm.html

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

From the Domestic Goddess Web site, a short biography: http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/gilman1.html

A charlotte Perkins Gilman page, focusing on the Yelloe Wallpaper: http://ppl.nhmccd.edu/~dcox/ohenry/gilman.html

As part of the Books and Writers site: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gilman.htm

Simone de Beauvoir

Part of the Realm of Existentialism web site: http://members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Philo/Beau/beau.html

From Philosophy on the Internet: http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/beauvoir.html

Short biography plus list of writings: http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/debeauv.html

Mary Daly

As part of the WomenBooks site, a bibliography: http://www.womenbooks.com/mary_daly/

A description of The Church and the Second Sex, which is Daly's response to Beauvoir:  http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/daly1.html

An article describing Day as a sexist pig: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/daly.htm

Patricia Hill Collins

Her web page at Brandeis University: http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/sociology/faculty_staff/collins.html

Short description as part of Black Intellectuals web site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/n/snm109/PatriciaHCweb.htm

Black Feminist Thought: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/students/jsjosefs/319pres11/