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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783410403321

Autore

Henry Astrid <1966->

Titolo

Not my mother's sister [[electronic resource] ] : generational conflict and third-wave feminism / / Astrid Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612071492

1-282-07149-1

0-253-11122-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0973

Soggetti

Feminism - United States

Feminist theory - United States

Lesbian feminist theory - United States

African American women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Daughterhood is powerful: the emergence of feminism's third wave -- Finding ourselves in the past: feminist generations and the development of second-wave feminism -- Taking feminism to bed: the third wave does the sex wars -- Neither my mother nor my lover: generational relations in queer feminism -- To be, or not to be, real: black feminists and the emerging third wave.

Sommario/riassunto

""No matter how wise a mother's advice is, we listen to our                peers."" At least that's writer Naomi Wolf's take on the differences between her                generation of feminists -- the third wave -- and the feminists who came before her                and developed in the late '60s and '70s -- the second wave. In Not My Mother's                Sister, Astrid Henry agrees with Wolf that this has been the case with American                feminism, but says there are problems inherent in drawing generational                lines.Henry begins by examining texts written