The meaning and uses of feminism in introductory women's studies textbooks

Feminist Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 403-427

  McDermott, Patrice ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/3178707     Document Type: Article

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1. Freeman worked with the Berkeley free speech movement, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Students for a Democratic Society in the late 1960s. As a young radical activist, she helped write early feminist manifestos; and her difficult experiences with the Chicago-based Westside Group inspired Freeman to write (under the alias "Joreen") "The Tyranny of Structurelessness," "Trashing," and "The Bitch Manifesto," which are now considered classic critiques of the internal politics of the early radical feminist movement. This account of Jo Freeman's involvement with radical feminism is drawn from Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989).
2. Florynce Kennedy, a civil rights attorney and member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, wrote Abortion Rap with Diane Shulder. Celestine Ware, a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists and early historian of the feminist movement, wrote Woman Power in 1970. Psychotherapist Patricia Robinson, who was involved in publishing the women's liberation journal Lillith, was the author of "Poor Black Women" in 1968, and Frances Beale wrote "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" in 1969. For historical accounts of Black women's involvement organizing early radical feminism see Echols; and Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). For a detailed analysis of how these radical feminists were excluded from the construction of feminism as a "political object" through the retelling of feminist origin narratives, see Katie King, Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Move-ments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
3. Florynce Kennedy, a civil rights attorney and member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, wrote Abortion Rap with Diane Shulder. Celestine Ware, a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists and early historian of the feminist movement, wrote Woman Power in 1970. Psychotherapist Patricia Robinson, who was involved in publishing the women's liberation journal Lillith, was the author of "Poor Black Women" in 1968, and Frances Beale wrote "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" in 1969. For historical accounts of Black women's involvement organizing early radical feminism see Echols; and Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). For a detailed analysis of how these radical feminists were excluded from the construction of feminism as a "political object" through the retelling of feminist origin narratives, see Katie King, Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Move-ments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
4. Florynce Kennedy, a civil rights attorney and member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, wrote Abortion Rap with Diane Shulder. Celestine Ware, a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists and early historian of the feminist movement, wrote Woman Power in 1970. Psychotherapist Patricia Robinson, who was involved in publishing the women's liberation journal Lillith, was the author of "Poor Black Women" in 1968, and Frances Beale wrote "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" in 1969. For historical accounts of Black women's involvement organizing early radical feminism see Echols; and Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). For a detailed analysis of how these radical feminists were excluded from the construction of feminism as a "political object" through the retelling of feminist origin narratives, see Katie King, Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Move-ments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
5. Florynce Kennedy, a civil rights attorney and member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, wrote Abortion Rap with Diane Shulder. Celestine Ware, a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists and early historian of the feminist movement, wrote Woman Power in 1970. Psychotherapist Patricia Robinson, who was involved in publishing the women's liberation journal Lillith, was the author of "Poor Black Women" in 1968, and Frances Beale wrote "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" in 1969. For historical accounts of Black women's involvement organizing early radical feminism see Echols; and Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). For a detailed analysis of how these radical feminists were excluded from the construction of feminism as a "political object" through the retelling of feminist origin narratives, see Katie King, Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Move-ments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
6. Florynce Kennedy, a civil rights attorney and member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, wrote Abortion Rap with Diane Shulder. Celestine Ware, a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists and early historian of the feminist movement, wrote Woman Power in 1970. Psychotherapist Patricia Robinson, who was involved in publishing the women's liberation journal Lillith, was the author of "Poor Black Women" in 1968, and Frances Beale wrote "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" in 1969. For historical accounts of Black women's involvement organizing early radical feminism see Echols; and Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). For a detailed analysis of how these radical feminists were excluded from the construction of feminism as a "political object" through the retelling of feminist origin narratives, see Katie King, Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Move-ments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
7. Florynce Kennedy, a civil rights attorney and member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, wrote Abortion Rap with Diane Shulder. Celestine Ware, a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists and early historian of the feminist movement, wrote Woman Power in 1970. Psychotherapist Patricia Robinson, who was involved in publishing the women's liberation journal Lillith, was the author of "Poor Black Women" in 1968, and Frances Beale wrote "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" in 1969. For historical accounts of Black women's involvement organizing early radical feminism see Echols; and Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). For a detailed analysis of how these radical feminists were excluded from the construction of feminism as a "political object" through the retelling of feminist origin narratives, see Katie King, Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Move-ments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
8. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, eds., Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (New York: Routledge, 1997), ix.
9. For more information about the usefulness of non-Western approaches to feminism, see Amrita Basu, ed., The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), 1-10.
10. Nancy K. Miller, "Public Statements, Private Lives: Academic Memoirs for the Nineties," Signs 22 (summer 1997): 981-1015.
11. Susan Sniader Lanser, Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992), 233.
12. Nira Yuval-Davis, "Women, Ethnicity, and Empowerment," in Who's Afraid of Feminism? Seeing through Backlash, ed. Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell (New York: New Press, 1997), 77-98.
13. Bonnie Thornton Dill and Maxine Baca Zinn, eds., Women of Color in U.S. Society (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994), 11.
14. Beth Kaufman, interview by author, Boston, 7 July 1997.