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Book SynopsisWhat is practical feminism in a postmodern world? Together, the 16 essays in this volume represent many different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and theoretical frameworks.
Trade ReviewGender Struggles represents the views of some of the most imaginative and provocative feminist thinkers of our time, demonstrating the practical significance of major theoretical innovations of the 20th Century for the everyday lives of women. These essays powerfully suggest that feminist philosophy can change the ways that we think about our lives, including work, child care and family, violence against women, our sense of self-worth, our speech, and our relations with each other. -- Kelly Oliver, SUNY, Stony Brook
A volume of first-rate essays, which demonstrates the continued vibrancy and diversity of feminist theory in the new century. -- Sonia Kruks, Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics, Oberlin College; author of Retrieving Experience
This intriguing collection offers a unique combination of philosophically bold and theoretically astute essays on practical feminist issues concerning everyday life and 'real world' politics. Feminist philosophy in the best of both senses! -- Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary Chapter 2 Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom Chapter 3 After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment Chapter 4 "Not My Way Sesha, Your Way, Slowly": "Maternal Thinking" in the Raising of a Child with Profound Intellectual Disabilities Chapter 5 The Emergence of the Fetus Chapter 6 Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity Chapter 7 Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention Chapter 8 Sovereign Performatives Chapter 9 The Harm That Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women Chapter 10 The Sexual Harasser is a Bully, Not a Sex Fiend Chapter 11 Suffering to be Beautiful Chapter 12 Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality Chapter 13 Time, Space, and Motherhoods Chapter 14 Re-thinking Consciousness Raising: Citizenship and the Law and Politics of Adoption Chapter 15 House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme Chapter 16 Cyberfeminism with a Difference
