Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds - Feminism and the Problems of Sisterhood

Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood.The intention of this book is presenting a wide variety of essays to explore and complicate the connections, acknowledged or unacknowledged, between the represented and the actual, as well as the ways in which women shape one another.

Summary

A text on oppression among women. Women's interests are not always aligned: race, class and sexuality complicate the equation and one feminist may be a political opponent of another feminist. This anthology addresses the dilemma from various feminist perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Ostrov Weisser, Elizabeth Young
• Assisted by: Jennifer Fleischner (Editor), Susan Ostrov Weisser (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1994
• EAN: 9780814726198
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-2619-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research