A Critical Review on the Book “Feminist Thought: A more Comprehensive Introduction”

“Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction” by Rosemarie Tong and translated by Manizeh Najm-e araghi is a publication that offers us a clear and comprehensible understanding of the core feminist traditions. In this book, the author addresses seven feminist movements: liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, socialist feminism, existentialist feminism, and postmodern feminism. This article seeks to show how informative and inspiring this book might be for the Iranian intellectual and scientific community. Tong’s publication is an important and popular figure in the English-speaking world and has the necessary coherence in terms of logical order. It is well structured and the Persian translation is smooth and fluid. Taking into account that the book was first published in 1989; the translated version leaves out some important feminist approaches. It lacks the proper structure of academic books, but in the absence of translations of other prominent feminist theory books, it is a useful resource for students and researchers in the fields of social sciences, philosophy, and women's studies. We hope that the editor of the Persian version takes into account the last English edition of the book (2017) and presents it to the readers in its next Persian editions.