Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques [Library Binding]

Nancy A. Hewitt (Other Contributor)

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Publication Date: September 1996

Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women's studies and feminist scholarship, which emerge as a rich, if sometimes dissonant, chorus of voices. These original essays cover a range of topics and a variety of times and places: images of women inherited from Roman oratory, visual images from cultures of trauma; verbal imagery in today's pornography debates; political and social identities in the state of Israel; boundaries between private and public lives of African American women leaders; voices and audiences of African American women writers; stereotypes of HIV-positive women; what women's studies can teach men about themselves; and the place of women in global industry. The introduction and conclusion place the collection within the context of historical debates in women's studies and suggest some new directions for the field. The contributors: Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) Sara M. Evans (University of Minnesota) Kathy E. Ferguson (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Karla F. C. Holloway (Duke University) Michael S. Kimmel (SUNY-Stony Brook) Mandy Merck (London) Barbara Ogur (Cambridge Neighborhood Health Centers) Amy Richlin (University of Southern California) Kristine Stiles (Duke University) Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University)

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A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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"Talking Gender is a broadly available and compelling anthology offering an unusual range and a surprisingly clear focus. These personally engaged, powerful, and moving essays testify to the fact that feminist social and cultural analysis is alive and well in the mid-nineties--a relief for some of us who might be worried."--Marianne G. Hirsch, Dartmouth College

"A model of its kind, Talking Gender breaks new ground while enhancing arguments with which we are familiar. It may well emerge as one of the key books marking feminist scholarship at the end of the twentieth century."--Temma Kaplan, State University of New York at Stony Brook --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

Library Binding: 224 pages
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (September 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807822884
ISBN-13: 978-0807822883
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

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Although women's studies began, in the 1970s, with strong roots in history, the trend of the past few years has run toward a sort of presentism, in which history before the modern disappears. Read the first page

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