| Description |
xxx, 624 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
"Generation X", the "third wave", or just plain radical: reviewing the reviewers of Catharine MacKinnon's Only words / Deirdre Carraher ... [et al.] -- Dworkin on Dworkin / Andrea Dworkin -- Statement on Canadian customs and legal approaches to pornography / Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin -- Stranger than fiction: the backlash on campus at the University of Victoria / Ellen Travis -- Connecting reproductive and sexual liberalism / Janice G. Raymond -- Speaking of things that shouldn't be written: cross-cultural excursions into the land of misrepresentations / Diane Bell -- Educational research de-radicalized: a warning from Germany / Uta Enders-Dragässer and Brigitte Sellach -- The banned professor or, how radical feminism saved me from men trapped in men's bodies and female impersonators, with a little help from my friends / Pauline Bart -- The last post for feminism / Sandra Coney -- Deconstructing fashion / Susan Hawthorne |
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(Re)turning to the modern: radical feminism and the post-modern turn / Kristin Waters -- Nothing mat(t)ers / Somer Brodribb -- The race for theory / Barbara Christian -- The disembodied worldview of deconstructive post-modernism / Charlene Spretnak -- The self-contradiction of "post-modernist" feminism / Denise Thompson -- Post-modernism and its "contribution" to ending violence against women / Katja Mikhailovich -- (Dead) bodies floating in cyberspace: post-modernism and the dismemberment of women / Renate Klein -- Return to gender: post-modernism and lesbianandgay theory / Sheila Jeffreys -- The queer backlash / Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger -- "French feminism": and imperialist invention / Christine Delphy -- The pernicious effect of post-structuralism on women's history / Joan Hoff -- Withdrawing her energy / Somer Brodribb -- I'll take the low road: a look at contemporary feminist theory / Carol Anne Douglas |
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Declaration of people's perspectives on "population" symposium / UBINIG -- Towards global feminism: a Muslim perspective / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Surfing the edge of the alphabet / Cathie Dunsford, Beryl Fletcher, Susan Sayer -- A feminist university: the thrill and challenges, conflicts and rewards of trying to establish an alternative education / Berit As -- Taking ourselves seriously / Jalna Hanmer -- The witches return: patriarchy on trial / Mary Daly -- The burying of Hughes / Robyn Rowland |
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Monster / Robin Morgan -- Beware: radical feminists speak, read, write, organise, enjoy life, and never forget / Diane Bell and Renate Klein -- Women of all nations / Inés Talamantez -- Light bulbs, radishes, and the politics of the 21st century / Robin Morgan -- Radical feminism: history, politics, action / Robyn Rowland and Renate Klein -- Experience, reflection, judgment and action: teaching theory, talking community / Joy James -- From practice to theory, or what is a white woman anyway? / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Maori-lesbian-feminist radical / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Enabling a visible black lesbian presence in academia: a radically reasonable request / Angela Bowen -- Working-class radical feminism: lives beyond the text / Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek -- Politics of intimacy: heterosexuality, love and power / Robyn Rowland -- The great incest hijack / Louise Armstrong |
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Selling a feminist agenda on a conservative market: the awakening experience in Taiwan / Yenlin Ku -- US pornography invades South Africa / Diana Russell -- The past is the present: thoughts from the new South Africa / Teboho E. Maitse -- Freedom and democracy: Russian male style / Tatyana Mamonova -- Pornography and the global sexual exploitation of women / Kathleen Barry -- Femicide: a framework for understanding genocide / Natalie Nanadic -- Truth versus loyalty / Evelyne Accad -- Through the smoke we remember: mothers of the Plaza de Mayo / Marjorie Agosin -- The market place of ideas / Evelina Giobbe -- From theories of indifference to a wild politics / Susan Hawthorne -- Declaración de propósito/mission statement / Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center/Centro contra la Violación -- Common language: different cultures / Powhiri Rika-Heke and Sigrid Markmann -- Our health project / Nganampa Health Council |
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Therapy and how it undermines the practice of radical feminism / Celia Kitzinger -- The personal is political / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Looking for God in all the wrong places: feminists seeking the radical questions in religion / Morny Joy -- The narrow bridge of art and politics / Suzanne Bellamy -- Take your pageant and shove it / Angela Bowen -- The posse rides again / Marcia Ann Gillespie -- "Misguided, dangerous and wrong": on the maligning of radical feminism / Diane Richardson -- On who is calling radical feminists "cultural feminists" and other historical sleights of hand / Tania Lienert -- A (political) postcard from a peripheral pre-post-modern state (of mind) or how alliteration and parentheses can knock you down dead in women's studies / Ailbhe Smyth -- Repackaging women and feminism: taking the heat off patriarchy / Victoria Robinson and Diane Richardson -- Deconstructing deconstructionism (or, whatever happened to feminist studies?) / Kathleen Barry |
| Summary |
Seventy writers discuss their ideas and practice of contemporary feminism |
| Analysis |
Cultural values |
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Feminism |
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Philosophy |
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Stereotypes |
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Women |
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Womens movement |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 563-606 |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Radicalism.
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| Author |
Bell, Diane, 1943-
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Klein, Renate, 1945-
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| LC no. |
96204460 |
| ISBN |
1856494144 |
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1875559388 |
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