{"product_id":"the-feminism-of-uncertainty-9780822358749","title":"The Feminism of Uncertainty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollecting almost four decades of writings by feminist activist Ann Snitow, \u003ci\u003eFeminism of Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e includes well-known essays, such as \"A Gender Diary,\" along with pieces appearing here for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Snitow’s work has always been very readable. Her prose has that luminous fluency that comes only after a writer has been steeped in decades of rigorous reading, writing and activism. These essays repeatedly emphasise how important her students are to her. … For third- and fourth-wave feminist readers, \u003ci\u003eThe Feminism of Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e will be both an introduction to Snitow’s philosophy and a valuable reminder not to reinvent the feminist wheel.” -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ann Snitow is a hero of late twentieth-century radicalism, in its many guises. . . . [A] valuable resource for the ambitious future scholar\/activist digging into feminism’s past. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Feminism of Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e shines brightest when Snitow’s uncertainty politics clash with the realities of action (and for Snitow, thinking, reading, and speaking are all actions).\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Paula Rabinowitz * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"At a time when the field is cleaved with irreconcilable differences between earlier epistemologies of feminisms and emergent perspectives, this book fills a major gap as it cuts across divides and speaks across eras and ideologies.\" -- Basuli Deb * Socialism and Democracy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Feminism of Uncertainty: I  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Continuing a Gender Diary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Gender Diary  21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Critiquing a Gender Diary  59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Mothers\/Lovers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Introduction to Mothers\/Lovers  71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dorothy Dinnerstein: Creative Unknowing  80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. From the Gender Diary: Living with Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923–1992)  93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Changing Our Minds about Motherhood: 1963–1990  97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Sex Wars in Feminism: Retrenchment versus Transformation  123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Poet of Bad Girls: Angela Carter (1940–1992)  139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Inside the Circus Tent: Excerpts from an Interview with Angela Carter, 1988  148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Beast Within: \u003ci\u003eLady into Fox\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Man in the Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e, by David Garnett  153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Feminist Picaresque\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Introduction to The Feminist Picaresque  159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Occupying Greenham Common  163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Feminist Futures in the Former East Bloc  191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Feminism Travels: Cautionary Tales  204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. Who are the Polish Feminists? (Slawka)  216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. “Should I Marry Him?” Questions from Students  228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Peripatetic Feminist Activist\/Professor Spends One Day in a Small City in Albania  238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. Certainty and Doubt in the Classroom: Teaching Film in Prison  241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Refugees from Utopia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19. Introduction to Refugees from Utopia  273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Memoir Project\u003c\/i\u003e  275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Politics of Passion: Ellen Willis (1941–2006)  293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22. Returning to the Well: Revisiting Shulamith Firestone’s \u003ci\u003eThe Dialectic of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e  297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Feminism of Uncertainty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 23. Introduction to The Feminism of Uncertainty  307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 24. Life Sentence: My Uncertainty Principle  310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 25. Doubt’s Visionary: Doris Lessing  316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26. Utopia, Downsized: A Farrago  328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27. The Feminism of Uncertainty: II  330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Publication History  335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  355","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406086840663,"sku":"9780822358749","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358749.jpg?v=1730494480","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-feminism-of-uncertainty-9780822358749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}