Reconcilable Differences

Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

Author: Lynn S. Chancer
ISBN: 9780520209237

"At last! A critical look at feminist schisms that doesn't trash either side. Chancer's analysis of the sexuality vs. sexism splits is excellent and also makes for wonderful reading. I particularly liked her ideas for a 'third wave' in feminism."--Judith Lorber, CUNY Graduate Center ""Reconcilable Differences" brings crucial new perspectives to long-standing problems. Chancer's insights enrich our understandings of gender inequality and the policies necessary to address them."--Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School "In this postmodern world of fractured subjectivity and incommensurabilities, Lynn Chancer boldly argues for the possibility of feminist unity amidst and through our oft-noted differences. A book of rare intelligence and broad applicability, Chancer confronts the thorny debates that have kept feminists fighting each other and unable to reconcile around even the narrowest of agendas. She argues for the vitality of these debates (around sex, around the culture of beauty and, most

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Pornography

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Feminism)