ISBN:
0231137923
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9780231137935
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0231510756
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 315 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Gender and culture
Parallel Title:
Print version In Love and Struggle : Letters in Contemporary Feminism
DDC:
305.42092/2
Keywords:
Electronic mail messages Social aspects
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Letters Women authors
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History and criticism
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Feminism History 20th century
;
Feminists Social networks
;
Letter writing History 20th century
;
Feminists Correspondence
;
Feminism History 20th century
;
Electronic mail messages - Social aspects
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind? Will you join our military protest at the gate? Will you feed the kids when I'm in prison? Are you able to forgive me for breaking off this correspondence because you are a man?During the women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. Symbolically tearing up the love letter to an absent man, they wrote passionate letters to one another, exploring questio
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; INTRODUCTION; Part One; 1; 2; 3; Part Two; 4; 5; 6; 7; Part Three; 8; 9; 10; 11; Part Four; 12; 13; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-290) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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