| Description |
xiv, 411 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Feminist Reflections on Community / Penny A. Weiss -- 1. A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women / Lila Abu-Lughod -- 2. A Letter from a Battered Wife / Del Martin -- 3. The Death of the Profane: A Commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing / Patricia J. Williams -- 4. Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 / Emily Honig -- 5. The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman / Kate Rushin -- 6. Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930 / Estelle Freedman -- 7. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: An Illegal Feminist Abortion Collective - How and Why It Worked / Pauline B. Bart -- 8. The Furies Collective / Rita Mae Brown -- 9. Sisterhood and Friendship as Feminist Models / Maria C. Lugones and Pat Alake Rosezelle |
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10. Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project / Byllye Y. Avery -- 11. Lesbian Community: Heterodox Congregation / Marilyn Frye -- 12. Feminism and Communitarianism: Comparing Critiques of Liberalism / Penny A. Weiss -- 13. Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community / Marilyn Friedman -- 14. Non-Contractual Society: A Feminist View / Virginia Held -- 15. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference / Iris Marion Young -- 16. Feminism, Family, and Community / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 17. Separating from Heterosexualism / Sarah Lucia Hoagland -- 18. Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women / Bell Hooks -- 19. Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research / Joan Ringelheim -- 20. Feminism and Democratic Community / Jane Mansbridge -- 21. Feminist Communities and Moral Revolution / Ann Ferguson -- 22. If Not with Others, How? / Adrienne Rich |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Communities.
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Feminism.
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Women in community organization.
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| Author |
Friedman, Marilyn, 1945-
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Weiss, Penny A.
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| LC no. |
94048374 |
| ISBN |
1566392764 |
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1566392772 (paperback) |
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