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Part I: Introducing the Child and Feminist Perspectives. Chapter 1: Who/What Is a Child?-- Chapter 2: Why Feminist Reflections on Childhood? -- Part II: On Voice and Silence. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 3: The Everyday Silencing of Children and the Feminist Politics of Voice -- Part III: Historical Threads. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 4: Reflections on Childhood in the History of Feminist Thought: Tyranny and Resistance -- Chapter 5: Two Models of Feminist Childhoods: Emma Goldman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Bridging Historical and Contemporary Reflections. Chapter 6: Feminist Manifestos: Childhood on Feminist Agendas -- Part IV: Contemporary Threads. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 7: Learning from Feminist Epistemology -- Chapter 8: Learning from Feminist Disability Theory -- Chapter 9: Learning from Queer Theory -- Bridging Historical and Contemporary Reflections. Chapter 10: Childhood in Feminist Dystopias and Utopias.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Search and Recover -- PART 1 Rethinking political theory -- 1 The Politics of the Canon: Gatekeepers and Gate-Crashers -- 2 The Politics of Ignorance: Christine de Pizan -- 3 The Politics of Form: Sei Shōnagon -- PART 2 Doing political theory -- 4 Community: Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Julia Cooper -- 5 Revolution: Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls -- 6 Childhood: Emma Goldman -- 7 Power: Mary Astell -- 8 Equality: Quilted Voices -- References -- Index

""Construing 'community' extremely broadly, from personal friendship to global dreams, this imaginative collection reveals the diversity of women's experiences in both traditional and feminist communities.""--Alison M. Jaggar, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Colorado at BoulderThis rich collection of essays explores a range of feminist perspectives on the importance of community to women's social, cultural, and political relationships. From the personal to the ethnographic to the theoretical, these essays discuss such topics as the viability of lesbian separa

Abstract
Mary Astell's female retreat is a political project, dedicated to the full self-realization of students in a world that diminishes them and thwarts the development of their potential. Newly analyzing the pedagogical tools and distinctive setting of her seminary, I reveal its most progressive promise. In this political reading of A Serious Proposal, Astell emerges as an early figure in the broad political tradition of female resistance to patriarchal domination. She enables a subordinated group of women to arrive at new and oppositional ways of understanding themselves, each other, and even the world, and to act for change. The methods and tactics she employs in her retreat bring to light some surprisingly democratic and feminist dimensions of Mary Astell.

From the Seneca Falls Convention on Women's Rights in 1848 through gatherings and organizations around the world today, feminists have systematically and collectively analyzed the character and range of existing gender-related problems in their societies, envisioned more equitable and inspiring alternatives to the status quo, and explored a variety of methods for change. This article is the first to look comparatively at a wide range of documents emanating from these meetings and groups, and to read them as one would any significant political treatise. The remarks here draw on documents from both working organizations and one-time conferences, as issued by grassroots and inter-governmental groups from local, regional, and international gatherings, that are both wide-ranging and issue-specific. While the documents are not evenly distributed over time, they do represent over a century and a half of feminist organizing. What follows includes a consideration of the scope of issues raised by feminists across time and place, and then, in greater detail, examines specific ideas about politics and education. Finally, in the search for something that might be called "feminist traditions," the article looks especially at connections and continuities in the documents.