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Author Segal, Lynne.

Title Why feminism? : gender, psychology, politics / Lynne Segal.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, ©1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 S454W    Check Shelf
Description vii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Gender and culture
Gender and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-273) and index.
Contents Generations of Feminism -- Acts of Memory -- Dubious Contrasts -- Rowbotham's 'Seventies' Feminism -- The Collapse of a Vision -- A New Fundamentalism -- The Turn to 'Theory' -- Political Agendas -- Gender to Queer, and Back Again -- The Rise of Gender Theory -- The Allure of Difference -- The Romance of Otherness -- The Joys of Queer -- Transgender Dialogues -- Back to Gender? -- The Future of Gender -- Genes and Gender: The Return to Darwin -- Science versus Culture? -- Survival and Sexual Selection -- Evolutionary Psychology: The New Contender -- The Tale of the Female Ape -- Theoretical Pluralists: The Enemy Within -- Gene Talk versus Social Change -- For Epistemic Diversity -- Psychic Life and its Scandals -- Tricks of Memory -- Dilemmas of Science -- Troubled Vision -- Feminist Denunciations -- Fantasy versus Trauma -- Models of Memory -- Memory as Narrative -- Betrayal versus Abuse? -- Narratives in Context -- Gender Anxieties at the Limits of Psychology -- Feminism Enters the Academy -- Still Searching for Sex Differences -- Feminist Psychology and Social Constructionism -- Openness to Gender Heterodoxy -- The Predicament of Men -- Projects for Reforming Masculinity -- Deconstructing Gender -- Subjectivity and Change -- Cautionary Tales: Between Freud and Feminism -- Opening Skirmishes -- Imagining the Void -- Oedipal Dramas and the Crisis of Paternal Authority -- The First Bond and its Consequences -- Retrenchment versus Renewal? -- Sexual Difference versus Gender: Accepting Ambiguity.
Subject Feminism.
Feminist theory.
Feminist psychology.
Sex role.
Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
Feminist psychology. (OCoLC)fst00922806
Feminist theory. (OCoLC)fst00922816
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Feminismus.
ISBN 023111964X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231119641 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231119658 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780231119658 (paper ; alk. paper)
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