| Description |
xxvii, 362 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender |
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Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender.
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| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Barnard College Women's Center, 1980. |
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Essays drawn from a conference sponsored by the Barnard College Women's Center and held in New York City, April 29, 1979. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Hester Eisenstein -- Prelude : the future of difference / Alice Jardine -- Gender, relation, and difference in psychoanalytic perspective / Nancy Julia Chodorow -- Mother-daughter relationships : psychodynamics, politics, and philosophy / Jane Flax -- The bonds of love : rational violence and erotic domination / Jessica Benjamin -- Language and revolution : the Franco-American dis-connection / Donna C. Stanton -- The powers of difference / Josette Féral -- To be or not to be-- a feminist speaker / Christiane Makward ; translated by Marlène Barsoum, Alice Jardine, and Hester Eisenstein -- Psychoanalysis and feminism in France / Jane Gallop and Carolyn Burke -- Poetry is not a luxury / Audre Lorde -- For the Etruscans : sexual difference and artistic production : the debate over a female aesthetic / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and members of Workshop 9 -- Difference and language : a linguist's perspective / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- For a restricted thematics : writing, speech, and difference in Madame Bovary / Naomi Schor ; translated by Harriet Stone -- Separation and survival : mothers, daughters, sisters : the Women's Experimental Theater / Clare Coss, Sondra Segal, and Roberta Sklar -- Visibility and difference : black women in history and literature : pieces of a paper and some ruminations / Quandra Prettyman -- Black women and feminism / Barbara Omolade -- Androgyny and the psychology of sex differences / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Lesbianism and the social function of taboo / Tucker Pamella Farley -- In a different voice : women's conceptions of self and of morality / Carol Gilligan -- Women in power and politics / Ruth Messinger -- Women and the uses of power / Elizabeth Janeway. |
| Subject |
Feminism -- United States -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Eisenstein, Hester.
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Jardine, Alice.
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Barnard College. Women's Center.
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| ISBN |
0813511127 paperback $11.00 |
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