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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, E. Ann.

Looser, Devoney, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and education--United States.

Feminism and education.

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Women college students--United States--Social conditions.

Women college students.

Women college teachers--United States--Social conditions.

Women college teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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."

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816687855

0816687854

OCLC:

476094387