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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: KaplanE. Ann LooserDevoney <1967->
• 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Generations
• ISBN: 0-8166-8785-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784375703321
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