Feminism and its discontents
Subtitle: a century of struggle with psychoanalysis
By: Mari Jo Buhle.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and feminism.
Description: Mari Jo Buhle reveals that the twentieth century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other. Starting with Freud's 1909 speech to an audience that included the feminist and radical Emma Goldman, Buhle recounts all the twists and turns this exchange took in the United States up to the recent American vogue of Jacques Lacan.

While chronicling the contributions of feminism to the development of psychoanalysis, she also makes an intriguing case for the benefits psychoanalysis brought to feminism. Buhle charts the history of feminism from the first wave in the 1910s to the second in the 1960s and into a variety of recent expressions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-416) and index.