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Feminism of Uncertainty (eBook, PDF)

A Gender Diary

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Produktbeschreibung

The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow's passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "e;A Gender Diary"e;-which confronts feminism's need to embrace, while dismantling, the category of "e;woman"e;-Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely mixing genres in vibrant prose, she considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-reflexive accounts of her own organizing, writing, and teaching. Her pieces on international activism, sexuality, motherhood, and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminism's impossible contradictions-and its utopian hopes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375678
• Artikelnr.: 54791416

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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