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Radically Speaking

Feminism Reclaimed

DIANE BELL/
RENATE KLEIN (eds)

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DIANE BELL and RENATE KLEIN
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Renate Klein and Diane Bell

  • Contents
    Robin Morgan
    Monster xv
    Foreword
    Diane Bell and Renate Klein
    Beware: Radical Feminists Speak, Read, Write, Organise,
    Enjoy Life, and Never Forget xvii

    Section 1: Speaking Radically
    Inés Talamantez :Women of all Nations 3
    Robin Morgan :Light Bulbs, Radishes, and the Politics of the 21st Century 5
    Robyn Rowland and Renate Klein : Radical Feminism: History, Politics, Action 9
    Joy James :Experience, Reflection, Judgment and Action: Teaching Theory, Talking Community 37
    Catharine A. MacKinnon :From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman : Anyway? 45
    Ngahuia Te Awekotuku :Maori–Lesbian–Feminist Radical 55
    Angela Bowen :Enabling a Visible Black Lesbian Presence in Academia: A Radically Reasonable Request 62
    Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek :Working-Class Radical Feminism: Lives Beyond the Text 67
    Robyn Rowland : Politics of Intimacy: Heterosexuality, Love and Power 77
    Louise Armstrong : The Great Incest Hijack 87
    Celia Kitzinger : Therapy and How it Undermines the Practice of Radical Feminism 92
    Jocelynne A. Scutt :The Personal is Political 102
    Morny Joy :Looking for God in All the Wrong Places: Feminists Seeking the Radical Questions in Religion 111
    Suzanne Bellamy : The Narrow Bridge of Art and Politics 126
    Angela Bowen : Take Your Pageant and Shove It 135

    Section Two: Radical Feminists Under Attack
    Marcia Ann Gillespie :The Posse Rides Again 141
    Diane Richardson : “Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong”: On the Maligning of Radical Feminism 143
    Tania Lienert : On Who is Calling Radical Feminists “Cultural Feminists” and Other Historical Sleights of Hand 155
    Ailbhe Smyth : A (Political) Postcard from a Peripheral Pre-Post-modern State (of Mind) or How Alliteration and Parentheses can
    Knock you down Dead in Women’s Studies 169
    Victoria Robinson and Diane Richardson :Repackaging Women and Feminism: Taking the Heat Off Patriarchy 179
    Kathleen Barry : Deconstructing Deconstructionism (or, Whatever Happened to Feminist Studies?) 188
    Deirdre Carraher, Sharon Cox, Elizabeth Daake, Michele Gagne, Patricia Good, Jessie McManmon, and Marjorie O’Connor
    “Generation X”, the “Third Wave”, or Just Plain Radical: Reviewing the Reviewers of Catharine MacKinnon’s Only Words 193
    Andrea Dworkin : Dworkin on Dworkin 203
    Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin Statement on Canadian Customs and Legal Approaches to Pornography 218
    Ellen Travis : Stranger than Fiction: The Backlash on Campus at the University of Victoria 222
    Janice G. Raymond : Connecting Reproductive and Sexual Liberalism 231
    Diane Bell : Speaking of Things that Shouldn’t be Written: Cross-cultural Excursions into the Land of Misrepresentations 247
    Uta Enders-Dragässer and Brigitte Sellach : Educational Research De-Radicalized: A Warning from Germany 254
    Pauline Bart :The Banned Professor or, How Radical Feminism Saved Me from Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies and Female Impersonators, with a Little Help from my Friends 262
    Sandra Coney :The Last Post for Feminism 275

    Section Three: Radical Feminists “Interrogate” Post-modernism
    Susan Hawthorne :Deconstructing Fashion 279
    Kristin Waters : (Re)turning to the Modern: Radical Feminism and the Post-modern Turn 280
    Somer Brodribb : Nothing Mat(t)ers 297
    Barbara Christian : The Race for Theory 311
    Charlene Spretnak :The Disembodied Worldview of Deconstructive Post-modernism 321
    Denise Thompson :The Self-contradiction of “Post-modernist” Feminism 325
    Katja Mikhailovich : Post-modernism and its “Contribution” to Ending Violence Against Women 339
    Renate Klein : (Dead) Bodies Floating in Cyberspace: Post-modernism and the Dismemberment of Women 346
    Sheila Jeffreys : Return to Gender: Post-modernism and Lesbianandgay Theory 359
    Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger : The Queer Backlash 375
    Christine Delphy : “French Feminism”: An Imperialist Invention 383
    Joan Hoff :The Pernicious Effect of Post-structuralism on Women’s History 393
    Somer Brodribb : Withdrawing her Energy 413
    Carol Anne Douglas : I’ll Take the Low Road: A Look at Contemporary Feminist Theory 417

    Section Four: Refusing to be Silenced
    Yenlin Ku : Selling a Feminist Agenda on a Conservative Market: The Awakening Experience in Taiwan 423
    Diana Russell : US Pornography Invades South Africa 429
    Teboho E. Maitse :The Past is the Present: Thoughts from the New South Africa 436
    Tatyana Mamonova :Freedom and Democracy: Russian Male Style 441
    Kathleen Barry : Pornography and the Global Sexual Exploitation of Women 448
    Natalie Nenadic :Femicide: A Framework for Understanding Genocide 456
    Evelyne Accad : Truth versus Loyalty 465
    Marjorie Agosín : Through the Smoke We Remember: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo 470
    Evelina Giobbe The Market Place of Ideas 479

    Section Five: Feminism Reclaimed
    Susan Hawthorne :From Theories of Indifference to a Wild Politics 483
    Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center/Centro Contra la Violación :Declaración de Propósito/Mission Statement 502
    Powhiri Rika-Heke and Sigrid Markmann : Common Language: Different Cultures 505
    Nganampa Health Council :Our Health Project 516
    UBINIG : Declaration of People’s Perspectives on “Population” Symposium 519
    Mahnaz Afkhami : Towards Global Feminism: A Muslim Perspective 525
    Cathie Dunsford, Beryl Fletcher, Susan Sayer : Surfing the Edge of the Alphabet 528
    Berit Ås :A Feminist University: The Thrill and Challenges, Conflicts and Rewards of Trying to Establish an Alternative Education 535
    Jalna Hanmer : Taking Ourselves Seriously 546
    Mary Daly :The Witches Return: Patriarchy on Trial 551
    Robyn Rowland : The Burying of Hughes 557

    A Po-mo Quiz 558
    Bibliography 562
    Notes on Contributors 607

    • Radical feminists are at it again. They are subversive, reflective, funny, polemical, political, moving, analytical, critical, visionary, radical. Seventy writers from every continent discuss their ideas and practice of contemporary feminism.

    Since the late 60s radical feminists have laboured to articulate a vision of the world in which all women would be safe, and all women be acknowledged as human beings in their own right. Their analyses of oppression were based on an understanding of the interlocking power of racism, classism, and (hetero)sexism as manifested under patriarchy. Their projects included Take Back the Night campaigns, establishing women's refuges, rape crisis centres, health centres, organising against pornography and developing courses in Women's Studies. The richness of the practice and the theory of radical feminism is often misrepresented or unknown. Radically Speaking tells this story.

    The definitive book for feminists everywhere in the 90s.
    Evelyn Accad, Mahnaz Afkami, Marjorie Agosin, Berit As, Louise Armstrong, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Kathleen Barry, Pauline Bart, Diane Bell, Suzanne Bellamy, Angela Bowen, Somer Brodribb, Deidre Carraher, Sandra Coney, Barbara Christian, Sharon Cox, Elizabeth Daake, Mary Daly, Christine Delphy, Carol Anne Douglas, Cathie Dunsford, Andrea Dworkin, Uta Enders-Dragasser, Beryl Fletcher, Michele Gagne, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Evelina Giobbe, Patricia Good, Jalna Hanmer, Susan Hawthorne, Joan Hoff, Joy James, Sheila Jeffreys, Morny Joy, Celia Kitzinger, Renate Klein, Yenlin Ku, Tania Lienert, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Teboho E. Maitse, Jessie McMannon, Colleen Madden, Pat Mahony, Tatyana Mamonova, Sigrid Markmann, Katja Mikhailovich, Robin Morgan, Marjorie O'Connor, Pitjantjatjara Women's Council, Janice Raymond, Diane Richardson, Powhiri Rika-Heke, Victoria Robinson, Robyn Rowland, Diana Russell, Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center/Centro Contra la Violacon, Susan Sayer, Brigitte Sellach, Jocelynne Scutt, Ailbhe Smyth, Charlene Spretnak, Ines Talamantez, Denise Thompson, Ellen Travis, UBINIG, Kristin Waters, Sue Wilkinson, Christine Zmroczek

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