| Description |
ix, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Gender and culture |
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Gender and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The feminist world of love and ritual -- Love letters to a new me -- Feminist epistolary romance -- Velvet boxing gloves -- Theorizing feminist letters -- Mothers and daughters in correspondence -- Writing the web : letters from the women's peace movement -- Do webs work? : letters and the clash of communities -- Care versus autonomy : the problem of (loving) men -- The paradox of care as a right -- How different is e-mail? -- Care ethics online -- On burning and saving letters -- Stealing letters : the ethics of epistolary research -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"During the women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. Symbolically tearing up the love letter to an absent man, they wrote passionate letters to one another, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and strategy. These texts speak of the new interest women began to feel in one another and the new demands - and disappointments - these relationships would create." |
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"Margaretta Jolly provides the first cultural study of these letters, charting the evolution of feminist political consciousness from the height of the women's movement to today's e-mail networks. Jolly uncovers the passionate, contradictory emotions of both politics and letter writing and sets out the theory behind them as a fragile yet persistent ideal of care ethics, women's love, and epistolary art. She follows several compelling feminist relationships sustained through writing and confronts the mixed messages of the "open letter," which complicated political relations between women (such as Audre Lorde's "Open Letter to Mary Daly," which called out white feminists for their implicit racism)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-290) and index |
| Subject |
Feminists -- Correspondence.
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Feminists -- Social networks.
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Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Letter writing -- History -- 20th century.
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Letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Electronic mail messages -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence.
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| LC no. |
2007028475 |
| ISBN |
9780231137928 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231137923 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231510756 e-book alkaline paper |
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