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The retreat from organization : U.S. feminism reconceptualized

"Using books, articles, unpublished letters, political manifestos, posters, and other such ephemeral remainders, The Retreat from Organization offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present. These materials reveal paths left unexplored and organization efforts still unfinished to suggest new possibilities for present feminist politics. Debates about the second wave women's movement revolve around the identity and the identification of the subject of feminism and rarely ask, as this book does, how feminism operates as a collective movement. Armstrong attempts to complicate how we disagree over feminism by asking questions about identity and organization, the subject and the movement, and ultimately, what "feminism" should be in our present context of passionate indeterminacy."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 2002
viii, 142 pages ; 24 cm
9780791452158, 9780791452165, 0791452158, 0791452166
47805155
Acknowledgmentsvii
Introduction: The Feminist Critique1(10)
Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution
11(22)
Feminism on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
33(20)
The Tyranny of Poststructurelessness
53(22)
Lesbian Sexuality Becomes an Issue
75(16)
Struggle and the Feminist Intellectual
91(20)
Conclusion111(2)
Notes113(22)
Manuscript Collections135(2)
Index137