Conflicts in Feminism

Marianne Hirsch, Evelyn Fox Keller

Psychology Press, 1990 - Social Science - 397 pages

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.

Contents

• January 4 1990: 1
• A Conversation about Race and Class: 60
• Replacing Feminist Criticism: 105
• Between Feminism and Deconstruction: 121
• Conflicts and Tensions in: 164
• Race Class and Psychoanalysis?: 184
• The Facts of Fatherhood: 205
• Thinking About Fathers: 222
• Upping the Anti sic in Feminist Theory: 269
• Valerie Smith: 271
• Conceptive Technologies: 288
• Notes of a PostSex Wars Theorizer: 305
• The Perils: 326
• Criticizing Feminist Criticism: 349
• Practicing Conflict in Feminist Theory: 370
• Index: 387
• Notes on Contributors: 395

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Conflicts in Feminism; Women's studies
• Editors: Marianne Hirsch, Evelyn Fox Keller
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0415901782, 9780415901789
• Length: 397 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory