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Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual. - ;Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women wh

'Working Feminism' looks at key concepts and debates within feminist theory and puts them to work concretely in relation to the real problems faced by Filipina domestic workers and Asian youth in Canada. Geraldine Pratt draws to the fore the metaphorical and concrete geographies that lie implicit and underdeveloped within much feminist theory and suggests that a geographical imagination offers a means of reframing debates beyond polarized theoretical and political positions

The past two decades have seen the incursion of feminist thought into many academic areas. Within the academy, feminist approaches have gained some legitimacy and yet, simultaneous with these disciplinary advances, there have been charges of racism directed at feminist scholarship and practice. These charges have resulted in feminist work continuously reshaping itself. This volume represents the strength as well as diversity of writings which discuss 'race' and feminism showing how these two areas, usually considered to be distinct and therefore discrete from each other, have developed. Feminism and Race includes articles spanning a number of disciplinary areas, such as history, literary analysis, sociology, and psychology and provides a history of how second wave feminisms have negotiated 'race' as well as suggesting what future directions these debates may take.

This volume illuminates the encounter of feminist activism with scholarship in political science, cultural studies, sociology, ethnic studies, and economics. The essays contribute images of the forces that lead to the development of many different kinds of feminisms and women's movements across the globe in the 20th century and recently. They explore the cultural constructions and legitimations of sustainability during the processes through which various agents interpret the relevance of feminisms for their social and political initiatives. The volume offers new dimensions on the relationships

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: January 4, 1990 -- I. Producing Theory / Thinking History -- 1. A Gender Diary -- 2. Historical Perspectives: The Equal Rights Amendment Conflict in the 1920s -- 3. A Conversation about Race and Class -- 4. Producing Sex, Theory, and Culture: Gay/Straight Remappings in Contemporary Feminism -- II. In Dialogue With -- 5. Replacing Feminist Criticism -- 6. The Text's Heroine: A Feminist Critic and Her Fictions -- 7. Parisian Letters: Between Feminism and Deconstruction -- 8. Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism -- 9. Adjudicating Differences: Conflicts Among Feminist Lawyers -- 10. Conflicts and Tensions in the Feminist Study of Gender and Science -- 11. Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions -- 12. The Facts of Fatherhood -- 13. Thinking About Fathers -- 14. The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? -- III. Contested Sites -- 15. Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory -- 16. Split Affinities: The Case of Interracial Rape -- 17. Birth Pangs: Conceptive Technologies and the Threat to Motherhood -- 18. Notes of a Post-Sex Wars Theorizer -- 19. Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria -- 20. Criticizing Feminist Criticism -- 21. Conclusion: Practicing Conflict in Feminist Theory -- Index -- Notes on Contributors.