This book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary
culture. For some, feminism is the favorite scapegoat for multiple
social ills; for others, the greatest success story of the closing
century. The Janus face of feminism in the media reflects competing
images of women's lives today. In one picture, feminism has changed
our cultural landscape and empowered masses of women. In another,
deepening global inequalities, assaults on welfare, and renewed
paternalistic and "workfare" rhetorics have successfully undermined
precisely those goals for which the women's movement in the 1970s
fought so vigorously.
Feminists themselves hold sharply opposing views on the success or
failure of three decades of women's activism. "Why Feminism? "looks
at the shifts in feminist thinking from the brash emergence of
Women's Liberation at the close of the 1960s, to the diverse and
discordant feminisms of recent decades. Outlining the rise of
feminist scholarship inside the academy, with its often ambiguous
relations to women's activism, it asks whether and how feminism
might still inspire a broadly transformative and progressive
politics. Looking, in particular, at feminism's troubled relations
with psychology and psychoanalysis, it examines the rise of new
evolutionary theory, the impact of queer theorizing on gender
categories, controversies over memory and trauma, and increasing
anxieties about men and masculinity.
"Why Feminism?" illustrates the continuing provocation and
significance of feminist inquiry, laying out its potentialities and
pitfalls for the century ahead.
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