Collecting almost four decades of writings by feminist activist Ann Snitow, Feminism of Uncertainty includes well-known essays, such as "A Gender Diary," along with pieces appearing here for the first time.
Collecting almost four decades of writings by feminist activist Ann Snitow, Feminism of Uncertainty includes well-known essays, such as "A Gender Diary," along with pieces appearing here for the first time.
Ann Snitow is Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Lang College, The New School, in New York City. A longtime activist, Snitow has cofounded The Network of East-West Women, No More Nice Girls, and New York Radical Feminists. She has written for The Village Voice, The Nation, The Women’s Review of Books, Dissent, and many other publications, and is coeditor of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality and The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Feminism of Uncertainty: I 1 Part I. Continuing a Gender Diary 1. A Gender Diary 21 2. Critiquing a Gender Diary 59 Part II. Mothers/Lovers 3. Introduction to Mothers/Lovers 71 4. Dorothy Dinnerstein: Creative Unknowing 80 5. From the Gender Diary: Living with Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923–1992) 93 6. Changing Our Minds about Motherhood: 1963–1990 97 7. The Sex Wars in Feminism: Retrenchment versus Transformation 123 8. The Poet of Bad Girls: Angela Carter (1940–1992) 139 9. Inside the Circus Tent: Excerpts from an Interview with Angela Carter, 1988 148 10. The Beast Within: Lady into Fox and A Man in the Zoo, by David Garnett 153 Part III. The Feminist Picaresque 11. Introduction to The Feminist Picaresque 159 12. Occupying Greenham Common 163 13. Feminist Futures in the Former East Bloc 191 14. Feminism Travels: Cautionary Tales 204 15. Who are the Polish Feminists? (Slawka) 216 16. “Should I Marry Him?” Questions from Students 228 17. The Peripatetic Feminist Activist/Professor Spends One Day in a Small City in Albania 238 18. Certainty and Doubt in the Classroom: Teaching Film in Prison 241 Part IV. Refugees from Utopia 19. Introduction to Refugees from Utopia 273 20. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project 275 21. The Politics of Passion: Ellen Willis (1941–2006) 293 22. Returning to the Well: Revisiting Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex 297 Part V. The Feminism of Uncertainty 23. Introduction to The Feminism of Uncertainty 307 24. Life Sentence: My Uncertainty Principle 310 25. Doubt’s Visionary: Doris Lessing 316 26. Utopia, Downsized: A Farrago 328 27. The Feminism of Uncertainty: II 330 Appendix: Publication History 335 Bibliography 339 Index 355
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Feminism of Uncertainty: I 1 Part I. Continuing a Gender Diary 1. A Gender Diary 21 2. Critiquing a Gender Diary 59 Part II. Mothers/Lovers 3. Introduction to Mothers/Lovers 71 4. Dorothy Dinnerstein: Creative Unknowing 80 5. From the Gender Diary: Living with Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923–1992) 93 6. Changing Our Minds about Motherhood: 1963–1990 97 7. The Sex Wars in Feminism: Retrenchment versus Transformation 123 8. The Poet of Bad Girls: Angela Carter (1940–1992) 139 9. Inside the Circus Tent: Excerpts from an Interview with Angela Carter, 1988 148 10. The Beast Within: Lady into Fox and A Man in the Zoo, by David Garnett 153 Part III. The Feminist Picaresque 11. Introduction to The Feminist Picaresque 159 12. Occupying Greenham Common 163 13. Feminist Futures in the Former East Bloc 191 14. Feminism Travels: Cautionary Tales 204 15. Who are the Polish Feminists? (Slawka) 216 16. “Should I Marry Him?” Questions from Students 228 17. The Peripatetic Feminist Activist/Professor Spends One Day in a Small City in Albania 238 18. Certainty and Doubt in the Classroom: Teaching Film in Prison 241 Part IV. Refugees from Utopia 19. Introduction to Refugees from Utopia 273 20. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project 275 21. The Politics of Passion: Ellen Willis (1941–2006) 293 22. Returning to the Well: Revisiting Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex 297 Part V. The Feminism of Uncertainty 23. Introduction to The Feminism of Uncertainty 307 24. Life Sentence: My Uncertainty Principle 310 25. Doubt’s Visionary: Doris Lessing 316 26. Utopia, Downsized: A Farrago 328 27. The Feminism of Uncertainty: II 330 Appendix: Publication History 335 Bibliography 339 Index 355
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