From Publishers Weekly
The title of this invigorating and strikingly original collection takes the term for runaway computer data as a metaphor for feminism, which is "at its best on the run," being constantly reimagined and redefined. The volume includes responses from readers to the pieces, which were originally published in a newsletter of the same name. Hagan ( Prayers to the Moon ) offers strong ideas that go past theory to real life, and she often provides concrete steps for readers to take (such as a "Hothead To Do List"). Musings on turn-of-the-century feminist/anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre excite both with a portrait of a lost feminist hero and with Hagan's re-examination of her feeling that so-called women's history was "boring." A treatise on heterosexual feminism compares the possible, if energy-sapping endeavor of feminists loving men to growing orchids in the Arctic. A look at female intimacy takes her mother's bridge club--which has met for nearly 50 years--as its starting point yet manages to avoid sentimentality, and the process of answering a survey on "women's experiences of male violence" spurs further research on whether women choose to bear arms and why.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
