ABSTRACT

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from several generations of feminists, asking them to reflect on the history and identity of feminism. Explores feminism in history and the conflict within feminism.

part |122 pages

Beside Itself

chapter |43 pages

Making History

Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire

chapter |21 pages

Domestication

chapter |26 pages

Transferences

Black Feminist Discourse: The “Practice” of “Theory”

part |103 pages

Against Itself

chapter |22 pages

Feminist Misogyny

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Paradox of “It Takes One to Know One”

chapter |24 pages

“Moral Deviancy” And Contemporary Feminism

The Judgment of Gertrude Stein

chapter |18 pages

The Singularity Of Multiplicity

Feminism and the Pitfalls of Valorization

chapter |17 pages

Housebreaking History

Feminism's Troubled Romance with the Domestic Sphere

part |87 pages

Besides …

chapter |23 pages

Personal Criticism

Dialogue of Differences

chapter |21 pages

Perverts By Choice

Towards an Ethics of Choosing