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Conflicts in feminism

Title

Conflicts in feminism / edited by Marianne Hirsch & Evelyn Fox Keller.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Routledge, 1990. c1990

Description

ix, 397 pages ; 23 cm

URL

<Table of contents> http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht003844343.PDF <Publisher description> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0647/90034999-d.html

Other contributors

Hirsch, Marianne, editor. Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-2023 editor.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Producing theory/thinking history. A gender diary / Ann Snitow ; Historical perspectives : the Equal Rights Amendment conflict in the 1920s / Nancy F. Cott ; A conversation about race and class / Mary Childers and Bell Hooks ; Producing sex, theory, and culture : gay/straight remappings in contemporary feminism / Katie King
• In Dialogue with. Replacing feminist criticism / Peggy Kamuf ; The text's heroine : a feminist critic and her fictions / Nancy K. Miller ; Parisian letters : between feminism and deconstruction / Peggy Kamuf and Nancy K. Miller ; Deconstructing equality-versus-difference : or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott ; Adjudicating differences : conflicts among feminist lawyers / Martha Minow ; Conflicts and tensions in the feminist study of gender and science / Helen E. Longino and Evelynn Hammonds ; Race, class, and psychoanalysis? : opening questions / Elizabeth Abel ; The facts of fatherhood / Thomas W. Laqueur ; Thinking about fathers / Sara Ruddick ; The woman warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific : must a Chinese American critic choose between feminism and heroism? / King-Kok Cheung
• Contested sites. Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis ; Split affinities : the case of interracial rape / Valerie Smith ; Birth pangs : conceptive technologies and the threat to motherhood / Michelle Stanworth ; Notes of a post-sex wars theorizer / Carla Freccero ; Feminism and difference : the perils of writing as a woman on women in Algeria / Marnia Lazreg ; Criticizing feminist criticism / Jane Gallop, Marianne Hirsch, and Nancy K. Miller
• Conclusions : practicing conflict in feminist theory / Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller.

Summary

Conflicts in Feminism proposes new strategies for negotiating and practicing conflict in feminism. Noted scholars and writers examine the most critically divisive issues within feminism today with sensitivity to all sides of the debates. By analyzing how the debates have worked for and against feminism, and by promoting dialogue across a variety of contexts, these provocative essays explore the roots of divisiveness while articulating new models for a productive discourse of difference.

Subject headings

Feminism--United States. Feminist criticism--United States. Feminism. Feminist criticism.

Medical subjects

Feminism

Subject headings

Crítica feminista.

Other subjects

Feminism

ISBN

0415901782 (paperback) 9780415901789 (paperback) 0415901774 9780415901772

Standard Identifier

30184646 +UKX