Conflicts in Feminism

by Marianne Hirsch (Editor), Evelyn Fox Keller (Editor)

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.

Genres: Feminism, Theory, Feminist Theory, Womens Studies

410 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 1990

About the author

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, at Columbia University. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College, and the author of many books, most recently Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism."

Reviews

[Chris Tolve]

This is a provocative collection of essays. Ann Snitow's and Nancy F. Cott's contributions at the opening especially stuck out. Others were less stimulating and I skimmed through them quicker.