The feminism of uncertainty : a gender diary / Ann Snitow.

  • Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943-
Date:
2015
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Physical description

xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

A gender diary -- Critiquing a gender diary -- Introduction to mothers/lovers -- Dorothy Dinnerstein: creative unknowing -- From the gender diary : living with Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923-1992) -- Changing our minds about motherhood: 1963-1990 -- The sex wars in feminism: retrenchment versus transformation -- The poet of bad girls: Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Inside the circus tent: excerpts from an interview with Angela Carter, 1988 -- The beast within: lady into fox and a man in the zoo, by David Garnett -- Introduction to the feminist picaresque -- Occupying Greenham Common -- Feminist futures in the former East Bloc -- Feminism travels: cautionary tales -- Who are the Polish feminists? (Slawka) -- "Should I marry him?" questions from students -- The peripatetic feminist activist/professor spends one day in a small city in Albania -- Certainty and doubt in the classroom: teaching film in prison -- Introduction to Refugees from utopia -- Remembering, forgetting, and the making of the feminist memoir project -- The politics of passion: Ellen Willis (1941-2006) -- Returning to the well: revisiting Shulamith Firestone's The dialectic of sex -- Introduction to the feminism of uncertainty -- Life sentence: my uncertainty principle -- Doubt's visionary: Doris Lessing -- Utopia, downsized: a Farrago -- The feminism of uncertainty: II -- Appendix: publication history.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.6.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9780822358602
  • 0822358603
  • 9780822358749
  • 0822358743