361 results for feminism
The art of life
oppressed state of my sex: we reason deeply, when we forcibly feel' (letter 19). The feminism of Mary Wollstonecraft demanded women's right to reason and the demand for a public existence alongside…subjected to its own counter culture, not only in the writing of women and the emergence of feminism but in the narratives of former slaves who exposed its complicity with imperialism and the emerging discourses
Soundings soundings issue 13 Autumn 1999
Cultural fishing
boundary between public and private It all seemed so clear: 'the personal is political' was the stall feminism had set out in the 1970s. But the 'Diana phenomenon', and the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal have brought…locate the individual tragedy in family and group history, to partake of that two-way traffic which feminism sought to establish between subjectivity and social situation. Yet, in the desire to move away from
Soundings soundings issue 12 summer 1999
The Windrush issue Postscript
between race, gender and sexuality, the place one left in the form of the debate between black feminism behind' and (often male-led) black anti-racism, or as she puts it, between gender activism…have been made 'responsible' for emasculating black men, and how this has been used to police black feminism into line, black feminist struggles becoming the object of reactionary revisionism. There is much to be learned
Soundings soundings issue 10 Autumn 1998
Political science: a secret history
fragile and irreplaceable institutions'. In The Memory Wars, this suspicion of collective action finds its targets in feminism, which Crews sees as the ideological force propelling the recovered memory movement, and in a homogenised middleAmerican…argument in individual cases, its extension is driven by a deep fear of the group, of a feminism in which victimhood becomes the 'test of authentic belonging', and of a mass whose collective consciousness
Soundings soundings issue 8 Spring 1998
Presumed innocence
directions this has taken for example, the use of hysteria itself as a rallying cry for feminism (feminism as a 107
Soundings soundings issue 6 Summer 1997
After the deluge Politics and civil society in the wake of the New Right
patronising description with which are they often labelled. For example, under the influence of movements such as feminism and anti-racism, it has been far less plausible to regard society as a passive, malleable sphere…need to be challenged - from the House of Lords to the model of the nuclear family. As feminism in particular has shown, the ways in which power is dispersed throughout social domains engenders a continual
Soundings soundings issue 4 Autumn 1996
Heroes and mother's boys
heroic struggle. In the 1960s and 1970s women's liberation unravelled the fabric of these identifications. Feminism invented a politics which did not rely on ascetic and dutiful sacrifice. It subverted the strenuous intensity…dreams changed, and men weren't invited. For many men , the meteoric and passionate rise of feminism, and the pleasures women found in its solidarities, reinforced feelings of uncertainty and personal isolation. Without women
Soundings soundings issue 3 Summer 1996
In praise of gender confusion
specifically for men in Western countries today. The turgid idea that many men living in a feminism-affected culture feel confused about who they are as men takes on a rather different cast when looked…could be decisive. In other words, we could be confronted with a social movement as significant as feminism but with the crucial difference that men are fortified with possession of all the resources from which
Soundings soundings issue 2 Spring 1996
Being Gay: Politics, Identity, Pleasure
identified men on the left demanding that an explicitly sexualized politics is now necessary for socialism: Feminism and the social movements around sexual politics have . . . had an unsettling effect on everything once thought…October 1988), 29. Hall is referring to L. Segal, Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism (London: Virago Press, 1987). 7 H. K. Bhabha, 'The commitment to theory', New Formations
New Formations Number 9 Winter 1989
Introduction
least arguable, for instance, that the impact of environmentalism and the anti-apartheid movement, even of feminism, has been felt more keenly in Britain in the commercial marketplace, through shifts in buying patterns and consumer…1 Quoted in Meaghan Morris, The Pirate's Fiancee: feminism, reading, postmodernism (London: Verso, 1988), 8. 2 See Stuart Liebman, 'Why Kluge?', in October, 46 (Fall
New Formations Number 9 Winter 1989
A Journey Through Blue Velvet: Film, Fantasy And The Female Spectator
For feminism the problem is that the castration fantasy, which posits a voyeuristc and fetishistic (male) gaze, invariably relegates…Masochism and the perverse pleasures of the cinema', Quarterly Review of Film Studies (Fall 1984); Constance Penley, 'Feminism, film theory and the bachelor machines', mlf, 10 (1985). 2 Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, 'Fantasy
New Formations Number 6 Winter 1988
Liberty, Maternity, Commodification
draperies after all, but that suggestion works to close off rather than to open up revolutionary meaning. Feminism is reduced to the desire for less restrictive female dress and the statue's ponderousness and stern…solemnity with which it ostensibly pursues this goal. What is thereby denied is not only feminism's larger political project, but the radicalizing part which representations of the body in fact played during the early
New Formations Number 5 Summer 1988
The Commitment To Theory
homogeneous political object. They 'make sense' as they come to be constructed in the discourses of feminism or Marxism or the Third Cinema or whatever, whose objects of priority - class or sexuality…witness the continual tension between the 'English', humanist, labourist faction and the 'theoreticist', structuralist, 'Trotskyist' tendencies. Within feminism, there is again a marked difference of emphasis between the psychoanalytic/semiotic end and those
New Formations Number 5 Summer 1988
The Vicissitudes Of 'Progressive Television'
been a troubled and difficult one; even more so the relationship with new social movements such as feminism and the squatters' movement. 24 The stress on popularity as asserted by VARA management is not uncontested…mentions several things which must be absent from chosen programmes, such as hard violence, discrimination, anti-feminism and the celebration of the rightwing establishment. All well and good, but how is one to decide whether
New Formations Number 2 Summer 1987
The Art of Life
oppressed state of my sex: we reason deeply, when we forcibly feel' (letter 19). The feminism of Mary Wollstonecraft demanded women's right to reason and the demand for a public existence alongside…subjected to its own counter culture, not only in the writing of women and the emergence of feminism but in the narratives of former slaves who exposed its complicity with imperialism and the emerging discourses
Soundings Issue 13, Autumn 1999
Reviews
boundary between public and private It all seemed so clear: 'the personal is political' was the stall feminism had set out in the 1970s. But the 'Diana phenomenon', and the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal have brought…locate the individual tragedy in family and group history, to partake of that two-way traffic which feminism sought to establish between subjectivity and social situation. Yet, in the desire to move away from
Soundings Issue 12, Summer 1999
Postscript
between race, gender and sexuality, the place one left in the form of the debate between black feminism behind' and (often male-led) black anti-racism, or as she puts it, between gender activism…have been made 'responsible' for emasculating black men, and how this has been used to police black feminism into line, black feminist struggles becoming the object of reactionary revisionism. There is much to be learned
Soundings Issue 10, Autumn 1997
Reviews
fragile and irreplaceable institutions'. In The Memory Wars, this suspicion of collective action finds its targets in feminism, which Crews sees as the ideological force propelling the recovered memory movement, and in a homogenised middleAmerican…argument in individual cases, its extension is driven by a deep fear of the group, of a feminism in which victimhood becomes the 'test of authentic belonging', and of a mass whose collective consciousness
Soundings Issue 8, Spring 1998
Reviews
directions this has taken for example, the use of hysteria itself as a rallying cry for feminism (feminism as a 107
Soundings Issue 6, Summer 1997
Politics and Civil Society In the Wake of the New Right
patronising description with which are they often labelled. For example, under the influence of movements such as feminism and anti-racism, it has been far less plausible to regard society as a passive, malleable sphere…need to be challenged - from the House of Lords to the model of the nuclear family. As feminism in particular has shown, the ways in which power is dispersed throughout social domains engenders a continual
Soundings Issue 4, Autumn 1996
After the Deluge:
patronising description with which are they often labelled. For example, under the influence of movements such as feminism and anti-racism, it has been far less plausible to regard society as a passive, malleable sphere…need to be challenged - from the House of Lords to the model of the nuclear family. As feminism in particular has shown, the ways in which power is dispersed throughout social domains engenders a continual
Soundings Issue 4, Autumn 1996
Heroes and Mother's Boys
heroic struggle. In the 1960s and 1970s women's liberation unravelled the fabric of these identifications. Feminism invented a politics which did not rely on ascetic and dutiful sacrifice. It subverted the strenuous intensity…dreams changed, and men weren't invited. For many men , the meteoric and passionate rise of feminism, and the pleasures women found in its solidarities, reinforced feelings of uncertainty and personal isolation. Without women
Soundings Issue 3, Summer 1996
In Praise of Gender Confusion
specifically for men in Western countries today. The turgid idea that many men living in a feminism-affected culture feel confused about who they are as men takes on a rather different cast when looked…could be decisive. In other words, we could be confronted with a social movement as significant as feminism but with the crucial difference that men are fortified with possession of all the resources from which
Soundings Issue 2, Spring 1996
Elaine Showalter
able to speak fluent French and dance like Madonna. Do you believe that the word "feminism" is still useful? Yes…human'. I agree with Toril Moi that there can be no post-feminism until there is post-patriarchy
Marxism Today October 1991
Something Wild
strengths, such as they are, come from what the men's movement learnt from feminism, his weaknesses share the same source. For 'masculinity' is not really some psychological essence inside anyone, either des-…ancient stories Bly uses to create his new/old images of a positive manhood. Some, influenced by feminism, will have enough awareness of child abuse and the damage fathers may continue to cause in families
Marxism Today September 1991