Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed
Since the 1960s radical feminists have worked to articulate a vision of the world in which all women are safe and are acknowledged as human beings in their own right. Their projects include 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 important story.
1996 | ISBN 9781875559381 | Paperback | 242 x 176 mm | 654 pp
THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE RADFEM STARTER LIBRARY
Reviews
'Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed is the book we've all been waiting for. It is an incredibly powerful collection of articles by radical feminists about radical feminism.’
–Women's Studies International Forum
'This remarkable volume of 70 feminist voices, distinguished by their continuity through time, global reach, politics of engagement and passionate determination to create a better world for women, is important reading for women's studies, gender and development, and cultural studies.’
–Women Ink
'This is a rich and varied volume, with essays that re-establish that the insights of radical feminism are really the most radical thing still around, no matter how much lingo is slung around, no matter how many acts of transgression are flaunted... The essays are well chosen for their thoughtfulness, incisiveness, and scope. It is a book well worth purchasing... it should be a mandatory book for women’s studies classes, both as an antidote to the hegemony of postmodernism throughout academia today, and in its own right as a collection of essays by critical, incisive, and clear radical thinkers on topics which are of critical importance during this period of pervasive and insidious backlash against feminism.’
–Karla Mantilla, Off Our Backs
'"Post feminist era be damned” could be the tag line for this collection.'
–Ms Magazine
Table of Contents
Epigram
Monster Robin Morgan
Foreword
Beware: Radical Feminists Speak, Read, Write, Organise, Enjoy Life, and Never Forget Diane Bell and Renate Klein
Section 1: Speaking Radically
Women of all Nations Inés Talamantez
Light Bulbs, Radishes, and the Politics of the 21st Century Robin Morgan
Radical Feminism: History, Politics, Action Robyn Rowland and Renate Klein
Experience, Reflection, Judgment and Action: Teaching Theory, Talking Community Joy James
From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway? Catharine A.MacKinnon
Maori-Lesbian-Feminist Radical Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Enabling a Visible Black Lesbian Presence in Academia: A Radically Reasonable Request Angela Bowen
Working-Class Radical Feminism: Lives Beyond the Text Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek
Politics of Intimacy: Heterosexuality, Love and Power Robyn Rowland
The Great Incest Hijack Louise Armstrong
Therapy and How it Undermines the Practice of Radical Feminism Celia Kitzinger
The Personal is Political Jocelynne A.Scutt
Looking for God in All the Wrong Places: Feminists Seeking the Radical Questions in Religion Morny Joy
The Narrow Bridge of Art and Politics Suzanne Bellamy
Take Your Pageant and Shove It Angela Bowen
Section Two: Radical Feminists Under Attack
The Posse Rides Again Marcia Ann Gillespie
“Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong”: On the Maligning of Radical Feminism Diane Richardson
On Who is Calling Radical Feminists “Cultural Feminists” and Other Historical Sleights of Hand Tania Lienert
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 Ailbhe Smyth
Repackaging Women and Feminism: Taking the Heat Off Patriarchy Victoria Robinson and Diane Richardson
Deconstructing Deconstructionism (or, Whatever Happened to Feminist Studies?) Kathleen Barry
“Generation X”, the “Third Wave”, or Just Plain Radical: Reviewing the Reviewers of Catharine MacKinnon’s 'Only Words' Deirdre Carraher, Sharon Cox, Elizabeth Daake, Michele Gagne, Patricia Good, Jessie McManmon, and Marjorie O’Connor
Dworkin on Dworkin Andrea Dworkin
Statement on Canadian Customs and Legal Approaches to Pornography Catharine A.MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin
Stranger than Fiction: The Backlash on Campus at the University of Victoria Ellen Travis
Connecting Reproductive and Sexual Liberalism Janice G.Raymond
Speaking of Things that Shouldn’t be Written: Cross-cultural Excursions into the Land of Misrepresentations Diane Bell
Educational Research De-Radicalized: A Warning from Germany Uta Enders-Dragässer and Brigitte Sellach
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 Pauline Bart
The Last Post for Feminism Sandra Coney
Section Three: Radical Feminists “Interrogate” Post-modernism
Deconstructing Fashion Susan Hawthorne
(Re)turning to the Modern: Radical Feminism and the Postmodern Turn Kristin Waters
Nothing Mat(t)ers Somer Brodribb
The Race for Theory Barbara Christian
The Disembodied Worldview of Deconstructive Post-modernism Charlene Spretnak
The Self-contradiction of “Post-modernist” Feminism Denise Thompson
Post-modernism and its “Contribution” to Ending Violence Against Women Katja Mikhailovich
(Dead) Bodies Floating in Cyberspace: Post-modernism and the Dismemberment of Women Renate Klein
Return to Gender: Post-modernism and Lesbianandgay Theory Sheila Jeffreys
The Queer Backlash Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger
“French Feminism”: An Imperialist Invention Christine Delphy
The Pernicious Effect of Post-structuralism on Women’s History Joan Hoff
Withdrawing her Energy Somer Brodribb
I’ll Take the Low Road: A Look at Contemporary Feminist Theory Carol Anne Douglas
Section Four: Refusing to be Silenced
Selling a Feminist Agenda on a Conservative Market: The Awakening Experience in Taiwan Yenlin Ku
US Pornography Invades South Africa Diana Russell
The Past is the Present: Thoughts from the New South Africa Teboho E.Maitse
Freedom and Democracy: Russian Male Style Tatyana Mamonova
Pornography and the Global Sexual Exploitation of Women Kathleen Barry
Femicide: A Framework for Understanding Genocide Natalie Nenadic
Truth versus Loyalty Evelyne Accad
Through the Smoke We Remember: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Marjorie Agosín
The Market Place of Ideas Evelina Giobbe
Section Five: Feminism Reclaimed
From Theories of Indifference to a Wild Politics Susan Hawthorne
Declaración de Propósito/Mission Statement Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center/Centro Contra la Violación
Common Language: Different Cultures Powhiri Rika-Heke and Sigrid Markmann
Our Health Project Nganampa Health Council
Declaration of People’s Perspectives on “Population” Symposium UBINIG
Towards Global Feminism: A Muslim Perspective Mahnaz Afkhami
Surfing the Edge of the Alphabet Cathie Dunsford, Beryl Fletcher, Susan Sayer
A Feminist University: The Thrill and Challenges, Conflicts and Rewards of Trying to Establish an Alternative Education Berit As
Taking Ourselves Seriously Jalna Hanmer
The Witches Return: Patriarchy on Trial Mary Daly
The Burying of Hughes Robyn Rowland
A Po-mo Quiz
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Other editions
Radically Speaking has also been translated into Taiwanese