Feminisms and Women's Movements in Contemporary Europe

Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.Bull, H.Diamond & R.Marsh PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND DEBATES Sexual Metaphors and Current Feminisms; H.Haste Feminist Challenges to 'Common Sense'; V.Bryson Feminisms and Women's Movements in the 1990s; M.Humm Words and Actions: Feminist in Masculinities Theory; M.Orr Love as a Political Practice: The Example of the Love for the Mother; L.Muraro Luce Irigaray and Citizenship: 'The Civil Woman', a Project for the 1990s?; C.Velu Theorizing Feminism in Postcommunism; P.Watson 'Something Unnatural': Attitudes to Feminism in Russia; S.Bridger PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES British Feminism in the 1990s; V.Randall Feminism and the Parity Debate in France; C.Duchen Looking Back, Looking Forward: Looking at Italian Feminism/s; P.Bono Mothers and Daughters in Italian Feminism: An Overview; A.Giorgio Conflicting Conceptions of Feminism in United Germany; J.Teschner New Mothers' Campaigning Organizations in Russia; A.White 'It's About Helping Women to Believe in Themselves': Grassroots Women's Organizations in Contemporary Russian Society; R.Kay Women's Discordant Voices in the Context of the 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine; S.Pavlychko Index