Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds : : Feminism and the Problems of Sisterhood / / Susan Ostrov Weisser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Weisser, Susan Ostrov,
• MitwirkendeR: Alcoff, Linda,; Allan, Tuzyline Jita,; Baskin, Judith R.,; Champagne, Rosaria,; Dimen, Muriel,; Fleischner, Jennifer,; Funk, Nanette,; Gillooly, Eileen,; Kaplan, E. Ann,; Looser, Devoney,; McClain, Linda C.,; Ostrov Weisser, Susan,; Patai, Daphne,; Reid, Robin Anne,; Ries, Nancy,; Shaddock, Jennifer,; Sinha, Manisha,; Thompson, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the time has come to ask a painful and frequently avoided question: what does it mean for women to oppress women? This pathbreaking, provocative anthology addresses this troublesome dilemma from various feminist perspectives, offering an interdisciplinary collection of writings that widens our understanding of oppression to take into account women who are at odds. The book examines the social, political, and psychological ramifications of this phenomenon, as evidenced in a range of texts, from women's antislavery writing to women's anti-abortion writing, from mother-daughter incest stories to maternal surrogacy narratives, from the Bible to the popular romance nove, from Jane Austen to Alice Walker. The value of the volume is perhaps best summed up by an early response to the idea-This is a book that should never be written; feminists should concentrate on how men oppress women. Ironically, it is precisely because the subject triggers such responses, the authors argue, that a volume such as Feminist Nightmares has become a necessity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN? -- 1. U.S. ACADEMICS AND THIRD-WORLD WOMEN : IS ETHICAL RESEARCH POSSIBLE? -- 2. SCOLDING LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU? THE PROBLEMATICS OF SISTERHOOD IN FEMINIST CRITICISM -- 3. LOUISA SUSANNA McCORD: SPOKESWOMAN OF THE MASTER CLASS IN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH CAROLINA -- 4. WOMANISM REVISITED: WOMEN AND THE (AB)USE OF POWER IN THE COLOR PURPLE -- 5. MIXED BLOOD WOMEN : THE DYNAMIC OF WOMEN ' S RELATIONS IN THE NOVELS OF LOUISE ERDRICH AND LESLIE SILKO -- II. BONDS OF MOTHERHOOD -- 6. MOTHERS AND SISTERS: THE FAMILY ROMANCE OF ANTISLAVERY WOMEN WRITERS -- 7. TRUE CRIMES OF MOTHERHOOD: MOTHER-DAUGHTER INCEST, MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER, AND THE TRUE CRIME NOVEL -- 8. EQUALITY, OPPRESSION, AND ABORTION: WOMEN WHO OPPOSE ABORTION RIGHTS IN THE NAME OF FEMINISM -- 9. THE POLITICS OF SURROGACY NARRATIVES: NOTES TOWARD A RESEARCH PROJECT -- III. WOMEN IN THE HOUSE OF THE FATHER -- 10. WOMEN AT ODDS: BIBLICAL PARADIGMS -- 11 . POST-FEMINIST AND ANTI-WOMAN: THE REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLICAN W O M E N IN FRANCE, 1793-1794 -- 12. THE BURDEN OF MYTHIC IDENTITY: RUSSIAN WOMEN AT ODDS WITH THEMSELVES -- 13. THE WONDERFUL-TERRIBLE BITCH FIGURE IN HARLEQUIN NOVELS -- IV. FAMILY LIKENESSES -- 14. THE PROBLEM OF SPEAKING FOR OTHERS -- 15. FEMINISM MEETS POST - COMMUNISM : THE CASE OF THE UNITED GERMANY -- 16. REHABILITATING MARY CRAWFORD: MANSFIELD PARK AND THE RELIEF OF "THROWING RIDICULE" -- 17. LOST IN SPACE BETWEEN "CENTER" AND "MARGIN": SOME THOUGHTS ON LESBIAN-FEMINIST DISCOURSE, BISEXUAL WOMEN , AND SPECULATIVE FICTION -- 18. IN THE ZONE OF AMBIVALENCE: A JOURNAL OF COMPETITION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX