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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784375703321

Titolo

Generations [[electronic resource] ] : academic feminists in dialogue / / Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8785-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaplanE. Ann

LooserDevoney <1967->

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism and education - United States

Feminist theory - United States

Universities and colleges - United States - Sociological aspects

Women college students - United States - Social conditions

Women college teachers - United States - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Comprised of original essays presented at various conferences held between 1993 and 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction 1: An Exchange; Introduction 2: Two Essays: Feminism, Aging, and Changing Paradigms; Sisters Are Doing It to Themselves; Generational Difficulties;  or, The Fear of a Barren History; Black Female Spectatorship and the Dilemma of Tokenism; Talking Across; Feminist Psychology at Thirtysomething: Feminism, Gender, and Psychology's Ways of Knowing; Shifting Locations: Third World Feminists and Institutional Aporias; Jason Dreams, Victoria Works Out; An Open Letter to Institutional Mothers

Dancing through the Mother Field: On Aggression, Making Nice, and Reading SymptomsWorking Mother; "Somewhere in Particular": Generations, Feminism, Class Conflict, and the Terms of Academic Success; The Objectification of Julia: Texts, Textures, and Contexts of Black Women in American Television Situation Comedies; When Feminism Met Postfeminism: The Rhetoric of a Relationship; Feminist Misogyny;  or, What Kind of a Woman Are You?; Three Feminist Mother-Daughter Pairs in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century United States



Fissuring Time, Suturing Space: Reading Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the WorldThe Anxiety of Affluence: Movements, Markets, and Lesbian Feminist Generation(s); Feminist Family Values;  or, Growing Old-and Growing Up-with the Women's Movement; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Composed of essays from academic women at various professional stages-from established scholars to junior professors to graduate students-this collection illuminates the debates of feminist histories and future legacies, while analyzing the challenges of "passing the torch."