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In universities and colleges across the country, feminists are debating their histories and future legacies, often expressing these controversies in generational terms. Some older, second wave feminists accuse younger ones of being careerist, overly theoretical, insufficiently political, and not grateful enough to previous generations. Some third wave feminists consider their foremothers naive, universalizing, or elitist, resentful of deviations from their established plans and improperly wielding their power. Generations addresses these divisions and impasses through sophisticated analyses of the challenges of “passing the torch.” Generations is composed of essays from academic women at various professional stages-from established scholars to junior professors to graduate students. Some are concerned with telling intergenerational feminist histories based on both research and experience. Others describe difficulties faced by feminists of all ages in the academy today. A final cluster considers issues in the highly charged convergence of feminist theory and postmodernism. The promise of feminisms yet to come can be found in these pages, alongside some of the most resonant and important feminist voices of the last two decades. Generations both complicates and enlivens the transmission and rebirth of feminist knowledges from one generation to another. Contributors: Diane Elam, U of Wales; Elizabeth Francis, Brown U; Linda Frost, U of Alabama; Jane Gallop, U of Wisconsin; Dana Heller, Old Dominion U; Jane Kalbfleisch; Jeanne Marecek, Swarthmore College; Nancy K. Miller, CUNY; Mona Narain, Otterbein College; Angela M. S. Nelson, Bowling Green State U; Judith Newton, U of California, Davis; Rebecca Dakin Quinn; Gita Rajan, Fairfield U; Judith Roof, Indiana U; Theresa Ann Sears, U of Missouri at St. Louis; Ruthe Thompson; Michele Wallace, CUNY; Barbara A. White, U of New Hampshire; Lynda Zwinger, U of Arizona.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction 1: An Exchange
  2. E. Ann Kaplan, Devoney Looser
  3. pp. 1-12
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  1. Introduction 2: Two Essays: Feminism, Aging, and Changing Paradigms
  2. E. Ann Kaplan
  3. pp. 13-30
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  1. Introduction 2: Gen X Feminists? Youthism, Careerism, and the Third Wave
  2. Devoney Looser
  3. pp. 31-54
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  1. Sisters Are Doing It to Themselves
  2. Diane Elam
  3. pp. 55-68
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  1. Generational Difficulties; or, The Fear of a Barren History
  2. Judith Roof
  3. pp. 69-87
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  1. Black Female Spectatorship and the Dilemma of Tokenism
  2. Michele Wallace
  3. pp. 88-102
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  1. Talking Across
  2. Jane Gallop, Elizabeth Francis
  3. pp. 103-131
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  1. Feminist Psychology at Thirtysomething: Feminism, Gender, and Psychology’s Ways of Knowing
  2. Jeanne Marecek
  3. pp. 132-150
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  1. Shifting Locations: Third World Feminists and Institutional Aporias
  2. Mona Narain
  3. pp. 151-164
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  1. Jason Dreams, Victoria Works Out
  2. Nancy K. Miller
  3. pp. 165-173
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  1. An Open Letter to Institutional Mothers
  2. Rebecca Dakin Quinn
  3. pp. 174-182
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  1. Dancing through the Mother Field: On Aggression, Making Nice, and Reading Symptoms
  2. Lynda Zwinger
  3. pp. 183-196
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  1. Working Mother
  2. Ruthe Thompson
  3. pp. 197-218
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  1. “Somewhere in Particular”: Generations, Feminism, Class Conflict, and the Terms of Academic Success
  2. Linda Frost
  3. pp. 219-236
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  1. The Objectification of Julia: Texts, Textures, and Contexts of Black Women in American Television Situation Comedies
  2. Angela M. S. Nelson
  3. pp. 237-249
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  1. When Feminism Met Postfeminism: The Rhetoric of a Relationship
  2. Jane Kalbfleisch
  3. pp. 250-266
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  1. Feminist Misogyny; or, What Kind of a Woman Are You?
  2. Theresa Ann Sears
  3. pp. 267-273
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  1. Three Feminist Mother-Daughter Pairs in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century United States
  2. Barbara A. White
  3. pp. 274-287
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  1. Fissuring Time, Suturing Space: Reading Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World
  2. Gita Rajan
  3. pp. 288-308
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  1. The Anxiety of Affluence: Movements, Markets, and Lesbian Feminist Generation(s)
  2. Dana Heller
  3. pp. 309-326
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  1. Feminist Family Values; or, Growing Old—and Growing Up—with the Women’s Movement
  2. Judith Newton
  3. pp. 327-344
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 345-350
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 351-361
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