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by Renee Heberle (Author)
Feminism: The Basics is a fresh introduction to our understanding of feminisms and feminist theories, offering readers a unique approach to studying feminisms in the plural by combining historical and theoretical perspectives on the academic and political lives of the term "feminism."
Author Biography
Renee Heberle is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toledo. She co-directs the interdisciplinary major Law and Social Thought and is affiliated faculty with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. She was the coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program at the University of Toledo from 2010 to 2024. Her research interests focus on feminist political theory, state violence, and sexual violence. Her publications include: Theorizing Sexual Violence, co-edited with Victoria Grace (Routledge 2009) and Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (Penn State Press 2006). She has published several essays about sexual violence in feminist journals Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and in the Oxford Handbooks on Gender, Sex and Crime (2014) and Feminist Theory (2016). Her most recent work "Can Masculinity Survive the End of Sexual Violence?" is included in Gaby Zipfel, Regina Mühlhäuser, and Kirsten Campbell (eds.), In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
