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Reclaiming the Mainstream - Individualist Feminism Rediscovered (Hardcover, New)
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Reclaiming the Mainstream - Individualist Feminism Rediscovered (Hardcover, New)
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At a time when some feminist critics are saying that the feminist
movement has been too individualistic and too market oriented, Joan
Kennedy Taylor contends that feminists should cherish and celebrate
their tradition of individualism and equal rights. Reclaiming the
Mainstream points out that the most enduring voices in the women's
movement--the voices that each successive generation of feminists
rediscovers with a shock of recognition--Mary Wollstonecraft,
Margaret Fuller, John Stuart Mill, Charlotte Perkins Gilman--have
spoken out against government privileges and special protection for
women so that their individual differences might flourish. This
book argues that modern feminism grew out of the nineteenth-century
Woman Movement, which, like much late nineteenth-century thinking,
became a battleground between individualist and collectivist ideas.
When individualist ideals predominated in this movement--ideals of
independence, social mobility, even sexual freedom--it gained wide
adherence. But when the movement supported collectivist ideas of
social reform, it became more marginal and sectarian. It was a
focus on the individual woman's rights and happiness that
reinvented feminist movements twice in our history, in the decades
from 1910 to the New Deal, and then again in the late 1960s. The
book examines this history, gives an overview of the contemporary
scene, and analyzes the campaign to pass and ratify an equal rights
amendment--and its failure. Reclaiming the Mainstream also
discusses contemporary policy issues that affect women: affirmative
action and comparable worth; rape, battering, sexual harassment,
and incest; the many facets of sexual and reproductive choice; and
theattempts to unify feminist and nonfeminist women against
pornography or in support of social feminist issues. On all these
topics, Taylor offers a new and surprising individualist feminist
analysis that asks feminists to make their philosophy more
consistent--and more effective. She calls attention to the
continuing voices within the feminist tradition that encourage
women to reclaim their strength, their faith in their own
abilities, and the community feeling of the seventies to find
nongovernmental solutions to the problems women still face in
managing work, family life, and relationships.
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