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Feminist Histories: Theory Meets Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Beth A. Boehm
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Abstract

Fox-Genovese, Kaminer, and Riley all write the history of feminism as a history of conflict between feminists who desire to deny difference in favor of equality and those who desire to celebrate difference. And they all ask what this contradiction lying at the heart of feminist theory implies for the practice of feminist politics. These works reveal the need for feminists who engage this debate to be self’-Conscious in their formulations.

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Review Essay
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 202 - 214
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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