Is the Future Female?: Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism - Brossura

Segal, Lynne

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ISBN 10: 1853820903 ISBN 13: 9781853820908

Casa editrice: Virago, 1994

Riassunto

The author challenges many feminist orthodoxies - on female sexuality, pornography, war and peace, psychanalysis and sociobiology. She argues against the exponents - such as Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin and Dale Spender - of apocalyptic feminism, which says that men wield power over women through terror, greed and violence and that only women, because of their essentially greater humanity can save the world from social, ecological and nuclear disaster. Segal urges that to base the politics of feminism on innate and essential differences between men and women is mistaken, dangerous, and basically a counsel of despair, since its logical conclusion is that nothing can change. Things emphatically have changed for women, she asserts, and we must build on these changes, combining autonomy with alliances to alter power relations and forge a new future for both women and men.

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This text challenges feminist orthodoxies and argues against the exponents of apocalyptic feminism, who Segal asserts are mistaken in basing the politics of feminism on innate and essential differences between the sexes.

L'autore

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1853820903
• ISBN 13: 9781853820908
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302