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The Legacy of the Personal: Generating Theory in Feminism's Third Wave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Deborah L. Siegel
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Abstract

This essay focuses on the repeated rhetorical moves through which the third wave autobiographical subject seeks to be real and to speak as part ofacolhctive voice from the next feminist generation. Given that postmodernist, postructuralist, and multi-culturalist critiques have shaped the form and the content of third wave expressions of the personal., the study is ultimately concerned with the possibilities and limitations of such theoretical analysis for a third wave of feminist praxis.

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Third Wave
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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms , Summer 1997 , pp. 46 - 75
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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