ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines whether and how feminism is useful within various aspects of public, institutional, cultural, and private life and highlights how traditions of feminist thought can be relevant across and with specificity of experience, location, and culture – a notion that later essays in the collection challenge. It also examines how contemporary feminism has been shaped by the notion of a generational divide and suggests important implications for the stubborn persistence of the “wave” metaphor. The book traces the history of reproductive choice activism in the United States, so central to second-wave feminism, and illustrates how it has simply ignored or spoken past the concerns of many in the Latina and immigrant population. It explores how feminist critique serves as an important corrective to contemporary philosophical approaches to both materialism and the digital.
