(Re)turning to the Modern: Radical Feminism and the Post-modern Turn

In Diane Bell & Renate Klein (eds.), Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed. North Melbourne, Vic.: Spinifex Press. pp. 280--296 (1996)
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This paper argues that certain features of postmodernism are bad for feminism and that there are ways in which modernism provides a better platform for a gender analysis. Specifically, by arguing against the category "woman" some forms of postmodernism undermine the political gains of focusing on gender.

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Kristin Waters
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