Conflicts in Feminism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415901782 ISBN 13: 9780415901789

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Conflicts in Feminism proposes new strategies for negotiating and practicing conflict in feminism. Noted scholars and writers examine the most critically divisive issues within feminism today with sensitivity to all sides of the debates. By analyzing how the debates have worked for and against feminism, and by promoting dialogue across a variety of contexts, these provocative essays explore the roots of divisiveness while articulating new models for a productive discourse of difference.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book proposes new strategies for practising conflict in feminism. A series of provocative essays, written by noted scholars and writers, examine the most critically divisive issues in feminism with sensitivity to the assumptions, hopes, and fears of all sides. By analysing how particular debates have worked both for and against feminism, and by promoting and enacting dialogue in a variety of contexts and modes, the essays in this volume simultaneously explore the roots of divisiveness and suggest new models for a discourse of difference.

About the Author:

Marianne Hirsch is Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Mother Daughter Plot and Beyond the Single Viison.

Evelyn Fox Keller teaches in the departments of Rhetoric and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Reflections on Gender and Science and A Feeling for the Organism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415901782
• ISBN 13: 9780415901789
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410
• Editor: Hirsch Marianne