Feminism and its discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis

With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the 20th-century's two great theories of liberation - psychoanalysis and feminism - actually had a great deal to tell each other. 432 pages.