Split Decisions : : How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism / / Janet Halley.

Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them....

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2006
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE. Taking a Break from Feminism
  • The Argument
  • My Complete and Total Lack of Objectivity
  • Taxonomies and Terms
  • A Story of Sexual-Subordination Feminism and Its Others
  • Liberation and Responsibility
  • PART TWO. The Political/Theoretical Struggle over Taking a Break
  • Introduction
  • Before the Break: Some Feminist Priors
  • The Break
  • Feminism and Its Others
  • PART THREE. How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
  • Introduction
  • Taking a Break to Decide (I)
  • The Costs and Benefits of Taking a Break from Feminism
  • Taking a Break to Decide (II)
  • Notes
  • Index