In love and struggle : letters in contemporary feminism /
Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind? Will you join our military protest at the gate? Will you feed the kids when I'm in prison? Are you able to forgive me for breaking o...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2008.
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| Series: | Gender and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/joll13792 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The feminist world of love and ritual
- Love letters to a new me
- Feminist epistolary romance
- Velvet boxing gloves
- Theorizing feminist letters
- Mothers and daughters in correspondence
- Writing the web : letters from the women's peace movement
- Do webs work? : letters and the clash of communities
- Care versus autonomy : the problem of (loving) men
- The paradox of care as a right
- How different is e-mail?
- Care ethics online
- On burning and saving letters
- Stealing letters : the ethics of epistolary research
- Conclusion.