"Feminism is emerging today as autonomous women’s politics which pose a major challenge to the male-defined radical tradition.(Not) only does feminism continue the humanist tradition… but its attempt to create a wide view of what it means to be human is… the creation of a whole Humanism.” --Margaret Benston (Chapter 2)

“Feminism refuses the validity of revolutionary movements that have to do primarily with the exchange of power among men.” --Helen Levine (Chapter 8)

“It is clear that feminism must eventually transcend both the academic divisions of labour and the one-sidedness of Marxist theory, and to do this within the dialectical process which we call history.

“Feminist socialism is committed in a way in which Marxist socialism is not to the abolition of the theoretical and actual division of public and private life.” --Mary O’Brien (Chapter 11)

“The revolution women are making is from the ground up. It begins in our own lives first, but its goal and direction is the radical transformation of all social relations. Men’s destructive power must be undermined if we, me and women, are to survive. The feminist movement is working towards this end. It remains to be seen who will join us in this historical struggle.” --Geraldine Finn (Conclusion)

"This anthology of essays by leading feminist scholars deals with fundamental questions of theory and practice, the relationship between the world of academia and the world of activism, and the development of feminist theory. Breaks new ground with its visionary integrative approach."
--Canadian Forum

"A positive sign that feminism continues to be a healthy, growing movement that is joyfully redefining what it means to be fully human."
--United Church Observer

"...a very satisfying book...highly readable, well-argued, stimulating, and provocative... provides an alternative feminist framework to guide how scholarship and politics should be carried out."
--Canadian Journal of Political Science

Table of Contents:

SCOLARSHIP: THEORY & PRACTICE

Jill McCalla Vickers: Memoirs of an Ontological Exile: The Methodological Rebellions of Feminist Research.
Margaret Benston: Feminism and the Critique of Scientific Method.
Jeri Dawn Wine: Gynocentric Values and Feminist Psychology.
Kathleen A. Lahey: Celebration and Struggle: Feminism and Law.
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman: Inherited Biases Within Feminism: The 'Patricentric Syndrome' and the 'Either/Or Syndrome' in Sociology'.
Marjorie Cohen: The Problem of Studying 'Economic Man'.
Alison Prentice & Ruth Pierson: Feminism and the Writing and Teaching of History.
Carole Yawney: To Grow a Daughter: Cultural Liberation and the Dynamics of Oppression in Jamaica.
Geraldine Finn: On the Oppression of Women in Philosophy or Whatever Happened to Objectivity?
Helen Levine: The Personal is Political: Feminism and the Helping Professions.

POLITICS: THEORY & PRACTICE

Angela Miles: Ideological Hegemony in Political Discourse: Women's Specificity and Equality.
Authored by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Women and Development, Canadian Council for International Cooperation: Feminist Perspectives on Development.
Anne Cameron: Classism, Racism, and Academic Elitism Run Head-long into Low-Rent Criticism.
Mary O'Brien: Feminist Praxis.
Delvina Bernard, Kim Bernard, Debbie Jones, Andrea Currie: Four the Moment (five songs from the musical group of the same name: an a cappella group that fuses Atlantic Canadian and African musical traditions).
Yolande Cohen: Thoughts on Women and Power.
Nicole Brossard: From Radical to Integral.
Patricia Hughes: Fighting the Good Fight: Separation or Integration.
Selected bibliography.