Feminism and Women's Movements in Contemporary Europe explores new developments in the theory and practice of European feminism. It assesses the significance of recent trends both in terms of a possible convergence of identities and issues across national boundaries and of the continuing relevance and vitality of feminist thinking and female activism in the 1990s. The book focuses on Europe, East and West, paying particular attention to the former USSR.

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

ANNA BULL is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Bath. She has researched and published on women's history, women and work, as well as women and politics in Italy.

HANNA DIAMOND is Lecturer in French History and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Bath. She has recently published Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: Choices and Constraints.

ROSALIND MARSH is Professor of Russian Studies and former Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Bath. She is the editor of Women in Russia and Ukraine (1996), Gender and Russian Literature: New Perspectives (1996) and Women and Russian Culture: Projections ands Self-perceptions (1998).