The retreat from organization : U.S. feminism reconceptualized / Elisabeth Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Elisabeth, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using books, articles, unpublished letters, political manifestos, posters, and other such ephemeral remainders, The Retreat from Organization offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present. These materials reveal paths left unexplored and organization efforts still unfinished to suggest new possibilities for present feminist politics. Debates about the second wave women's movement revolve around the identity and the identification of the subject of feminism and rarely ask, as this book does, how feminism operates as a collective movement. Armstrong attempts to complicate how we disagree over feminism by asking questions about identity and organization, the subject and the movement, and ultimately, what "feminism" should be in our present context of passionate indeterminacy.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

THe Feminist Critique

Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution

Feminism on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

The Tyranny of Poststructurelessness

Lesbian Sexuality Becomes an Issue

Struggle and the Feminist Intellectual

Conclusion

Notes

Manuscript Collections

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791489284

0791489280

9780585441405

0585441405

OCLC:

61367480