Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds : : Feminism and the Problems of Sisterhood /

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

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 rec...

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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
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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

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