Not my mother's sister : generational conflict and third-wave feminism
"In this compelling book, Astrid Henry addresses the problems inherent in the persistent drawing of generational lines to analyze the state of feminism and feminist discourse. By identifying new waves or generations of feminisms, younger feminists are able to claim feminism for themselves. They are able to rebel more easily against orthodoxies of the previous generation and to identify what they see as their original contributions to the women's movement. Yet by being too preoccupied with generational rebellion, Henry argues, the next generation has tended to overstate the homogeneity of previous generation and to diminish the contributions of earlier generations to women's rights. Often the rebellion focuses on personal identity at the expense of collective political action. The book analyzes second-wave feminism's relationship to the first wave, third wave's to the second, and within the latter how queer theorists of the third wave relate to lesbian feminists of the second wave. IT also addresses the ways in which certain black feminists have adopted or rejected the generational paradigm in identifying new directions for their movement." -- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2004
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2004