| Description |
x, 405 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Ostrov Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner -- 1. U.S. Academics and Third-World Women: Is Ethical Research Possible? / Daphne Patai -- 2. Scolding Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? The Problematics of Sisterhood in Feminist Criticism / Devoney Looser -- 3. Louisa Susanna McCord: Spokeswoman of the Master Class in Antebellum South Carolina / Manisha Sinha -- 4. Womanism Revisited: Women and the (Ab)use of Power in The Color Purple / Tuzyline Jita Allan -- 5. Mixed Blood Women: The Dynamic of Women's Relations in the Novels of Louise Erdrich and Leslie Silko / Jennifer Shaddock -- 6. Mothers and Sisters: The Family Romance of Antislavery Women Writers / Jennifer Fleischner -- 7. True Crimes of Motherhood: Mother-Daughter Incest, Multiple Personality Disorder, and the True Crime Novel / Rosaria Champagne -- 8. Equality, Oppression, and Abortion: Women Who Oppose Abortion Rights in the Name of Feminism / Linda C. McClain |
|
9. The Politics of Surrogacy Narratives: Notes toward a Research Project / E. Ann Kaplan -- 10. Women at Odds: Biblical Paradigms / Judith R. Baskin -- 11. Post-Feminist and Anti-Woman: The Revolutionary Republican Women in France, 1793-1794 / William Thompson -- 12. The Burden of Mythic Identity: Russian Women at Odds with Themselves / Nancy Ries -- 13. The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels / Susan Ostrov Weisser -- 14. The Problem of Speaking for Others / Linda Alcoff -- 15. Feminism Meets Post-Communism: The Case of the United Germany / Nanette Funk -- 16. Rehabilitating Mary Crawford: Mansfield Park and the Relief of "Throwing Ridicule" / Eileen Gillooly -- 17. Lost in Space between "Center" and "Margin": Some Thoughts on Lesbian-Feminist Discourse, Bisexual Women, and Speculative Fiction / Robin Anne Reid -- 18. In the Zone of Ambivalence: A Journal of Competition / Muriel Dimen |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
|
|
Feminism -- United States.
|
|
Feminism.
|
| Author |
Fleischner, Jennifer.
|
|
Weisser, Susan Ostrov.
|
| LC no. |
94026606 |
| ISBN |
0814726194 (acid-free paper) |
|
0814726208 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
|
