The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow’s passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gender Diary"—which confronts feminism’s need to embrace, while dismantling, the category of "woman"—Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely mixing genres in vibrant prose, she considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-reflexive accounts of her own organizing, writing, and teaching. Her pieces on international activism, sexuality, motherhood, and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminism’s impossible contradictions—and its utopian hopes.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Feminism of Uncertainty: I
- Part I. Continuing a Gender Diary
- 1. A Gender Diary
- 2. Critiquing a Gender Diary
- Part II. Mothers/Lovers
- 3. Introduction to Mothers/Lovers
- 4. Dorothy Dinnerstein: Creative Unknowing
- 5. From the Gender Diary: Living with Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923 – 1992)
- 6. Changing Our Minds about Motherhood: 1963 – 1990
- 7. The Sex Wars in Feminism: Retrenchment versus Transformation
- 8. The Poet of Bad Girls: Angela Carter (1940 – 1992)
- 9. Inside the Circus Tent: Excerpts from an Interview with Angela Carter, 1988
- 10. The Beast Within: Lady into Fox and A Man in the Zoo, by David Garnett
- Part III. The Feminist Picaresque
- 11. Introduction to the Feminist Picaresque
- 12. Occupying Greenham Common
- 13. Feminist Futures in the Former East Bloc
- 14. Feminism Travels: Cautionary Tales
- 15. Who are the Polish Feminists? (Slawka)
- 16. “Should I Marry Him?” Questions from Students
- 17. The Peripatetic Feminist Activist/Professor Spends One Day in a Small City in Albania
- 18. Certainty and Doubt in the Classroom: Teaching Film in Prison
- Part IV. Refugees from Utopia
- 19. Introduction to Refugees from Utopia
- 20. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project
- 21. The Politics of Passion: Ellen Willis (1941 – 2006)
- 22. Returning to the Well: Revisiting Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex
- Part V. The Feminism of Uncertainty
- 23. Introduction to the Feminism of Uncertainty
- 24. Life Sentence: My Uncertainty Principle
- 25. Doubt’s Visionary: Doris Lessing
- 26. Utopia, Downsized: A Farrago
- 27. The Feminism of Uncertainty: II
- Appendix: Publication History
- Bibliography
- Index
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