Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Introduction 1: An Exchange......Page 14
Introduction 2: Two Essays: Feminism, Aging, and Changing Paradigms......Page 26
Gen X Feminists? Youthism, Careerism, and the Third Wave......Page 44
Sisters Are Doing It to Themselves......Page 68
Generational Difficulties; or, The Fear of a Barren History......Page 82
Black Female Spectatorship and the Dilemma of Tokenism......Page 101
Talking Across......Page 116
Feminist Psychology at Thirtysomething: Feminism, Gender, and Psychology’s Ways of Knowing......Page 145
Shifting Locations: Third World Feminists and Institutional Aporias......Page 164
Jason Dreams, Victoria Works Out......Page 178
An Open Letter to Institutional Mothers......Page 187
Dancing through the Mother Field: On Aggression, Making Nice, and Reading Symptoms......Page 196
Working Mother......Page 210
“Somewhere in Particular”: Generations, Feminism, Class Conflict, and the Terms of Academic Success......Page 232
The Objectification of Julia: Texts, Textures, and Contexts of Black Women in American Television Situation Comedies......Page 250
When Feminism Met Postfeminism: The Rhetoric of a Relationship......Page 263
Feminist Misogyny; or, What Kind of a Woman Are You?......Page 280
Three Feminist Mother-Daughter Pairs in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century United States......Page 287
Fissuring Time, Suturing Space: Reading Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World......Page 301
The Anxiety of Affluence: Movements, Markets, and Lesbian Feminist Generation(s)......Page 322
Feminist Family Values; or, Growing Old—and Growing Up—with the Women’s Movement......Page 340
Contributors......Page 358
B......Page 364
C......Page 365
F......Page 366
G......Page 367
I......Page 368
M......Page 369
P......Page 371
S......Page 372
W......Page 373
Z......Page 374