LEADER 05676nam 22008295 450 001 9910781015903321 005 20230207231246.0 010 $a1-282-87200-1 010 $a9786612872006 010 $a0-231-51075-6 024 7 $a10.7312/joll13792 035 $a(CKB)2550000000018604 035 $a(EBL)908487 035 $a(OCoLC)819606180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438056 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308257 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438056 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449036 035 $a(PQKB)11546082 035 $a(DE-B1597)458973 035 $a(OCoLC)1024016584 035 $a(OCoLC)1029824031 035 $a(OCoLC)1032693098 035 $a(OCoLC)1037972254 035 $a(OCoLC)1042008310 035 $a(OCoLC)1046609511 035 $a(OCoLC)1047000910 035 $a(OCoLC)1049626401 035 $a(OCoLC)1054872475 035 $a(OCoLC)979574678 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908487 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000018604 100 $a20190708d2008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn Love and Struggle $eLetters in Contemporary Feminism /$fMargaretta Jolly 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 225 0 $aGender and Culture Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13793-1 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. The Feminist World Of Love And Ritual --$tPART I: Yours In Sisterhood --$t1. Love Letters to a New Me --$t2. Feminist Epistolary Romance --$t3. Velvet Boxing Gloves --$tPART II: Letter Writing and the Ethics of Care --$t4. Theorizing Feminist Letters --$t5. Mothers and Daughters in Correspondence --$t6. Writing the Web: Letters from the Women's Peace Movement --$t7. Do Webs Work? Letters and the Clash of Communities --$tPART III: The Right to Be Cared For: Letters and the Life Cycle of a Social Movement --$t8. Care Versus Autonomy: The Problem of (Loving) Men --$t9. The Paradox of Care as a Right --$t10. How Different Is E-mail? --$t11. Care Ethics Online --$tPART IV: The Afterlife of Letters --$t12. On Burning and Saving Letters --$t13. On Stealing Letters: The Ethics of Epistolary Research --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aWinner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind? Will you join our military protest at the gate? Will you feed the kids when I'm in prison? Are you able to forgive me for breaking off this correspondence because you are a man? During the women's movement of the 1970's and 1980's, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. Symbolically tearing up the love letter to an absent man, they wrote passionate letters to one another, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and strategy. These texts speak of the new interest women began to feel in one another and the new demands and disappointments these relationships would create. Margaretta Jolly provides the first cultural study of these letters, charting the evolution of feminist political consciousness from the height of the women's movement to today's e-mail networks. Jolly uncovers the passionate, contradictory emotions of both politics and letter writing and sets out the theory behind them as a fragile yet persistent ideal of care ethics, women's love, and epistolary art. She follows several compelling feminist relationships sustained through writing and confronts the mixed messages of the "open letter," which complicated political relations between women (such as Audre Lorde's "Open Letter to Mary Daly," which called out white feminists for their implicit racism).Jolly recovers the unsung literature of lesbianism and feminist romance, examines the ambivalent feelings within mother-daughter correspondences, and considers letter-writing campaigns during the peace movement. She concludes with a discussion of the ethical dilemma surrounding care versus autonomy and the meaning behind the burning or saving of letters. Letters that chart love stories, letters stowed away in attics, letters burnt at the end of romances, bittersweet letters written but never sent... this fascinating glimpse into women's intimate archives illuminates one of feminism's central concerns that all relationships are political and uniquely recasts a social movement in very emotional terms. 410 0$aGender and Culture Series 606 $aFeminists$xSocial networks$y20th century$zGreat Britain$vCorrespondence 606 $aFeminists$xHistory$y20th century$zUnited States 606 $aFeminism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFeminism$xHistory 606 $aLetter writing$xHistory and criticism$xWomen authors 606 $aLetters$xSocial aspects 606 $aElectronic mail messages 615 0$aFeminists$xSocial networks 615 0$aFeminists$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory 615 0$aLetter writing$xHistory and criticism.$xWomen authors 615 0$aLetters$xSocial aspects 615 0$aElectronic mail messages 676 $a305.42092/2 676 $a305.420922 700 $aJolly$b Margaretta$01463547 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781015903321 996 $aIn Love and Struggle$93672833 997 $aUNINA