ISBN:
9780816628988
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0816628998
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081662898X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 361 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Generations : Academic Feminists in Dialogue
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Feminism and education
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Women college students Social conditions
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Women college teachers Social conditions
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Feminist theory
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Universities and colleges Sociological aspects
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Feminism and education ; United States
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Feminist theory ; United States
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Universities and colleges ; United States ; Sociological aspects
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Women college students ; United States ; Social conditions
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Women college teachers ; United States ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Composed of essays from academic women at various professional stages-from established scholars to junior professors to graduate students-this collection illuminates the debates of feminist histories and future legacies, while analyzing the challenges of "passing the torch
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction 1: An Exchange; Introduction 2: Two Essays: Feminism, Aging, and Changing Paradigms; Sisters Are Doing It to Themselves; Generational Difficulties; or, The Fear of a Barren History; Black Female Spectatorship and the Dilemma of Tokenism; Talking Across; Feminist Psychology at Thirtysomething: Feminism, Gender, and Psychology's Ways of Knowing; Shifting Locations: Third World Feminists and Institutional Aporias; Jason Dreams, Victoria Works Out; An Open Letter to Institutional Mothers
Description / Table of Contents:
Dancing through the Mother Field: On Aggression, Making Nice, and Reading SymptomsWorking Mother; "Somewhere in Particular": Generations, Feminism, Class Conflict, and the Terms of Academic Success; The Objectification of Julia: Texts, Textures, and Contexts of Black Women in American Television Situation Comedies; When Feminism Met Postfeminism: The Rhetoric of a Relationship; Feminist Misogyny; or, What Kind of a Woman Are You?; Three Feminist Mother-Daughter Pairs in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century United States
Description / Table of Contents:
Fissuring Time, Suturing Space: Reading Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the WorldThe Anxiety of Affluence: Movements, Markets, and Lesbian Feminist Generation(s); Feminist Family Values; or, Growing Old-and Growing Up-with the Women's Movement; Contributors; Index
Note:
Comprised of original essays presented at various conferences held between 1993 and 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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