From Lucy Stone to Virginia Woolf, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir, Feminist Theorists celebrates a rich but neglected tradition of feminist thought. In twenty-one lively and inspiring portraits, modernday feminists such as Alix Kates Shulman and Ann Oakley recapture the lives and work of the outstanding feminist thinkers of the last three centuries, both in the context of their own day and in light of the present women"s movement.