ABSTRACT
A short conclusion draws together some of the principal arguments and themes of the book and speculates on strategies for viable feminist futures that combine “self-ful” individuality with an awareness of the history and ongoing conditions of oppression of “class woman.” It also discusses the importance of considering the words and works of politically unfashionable or “difficult” women, who do not meet current feminist standards of political purity, as part of the project of recognizing women as autonomous human beings, capable of a range of political and philosophical views, as well as in the interests of enabling full and free academic and ethical discourse in an age of encroaching authoritarianism.
