Title:	The Feminism of Uncertainty
Authors:	Snitow, Ann
Keywords:	Feminism—United States
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Description:	To my initial surprise, I have been able to make a short list of preoccupations that have marked the thirty-five years of writing gathered here. First, as I reread these essays, now clustered together to form new patterns, everywhere I find the belief in the importance of imagining a better world—call it utopian yearning. But also everywhere here, this hopefulness collapses into utopia’s common twin, ironic skepticism. This combination is wonderfully recorded in a typical remark of my parents’ generation: “A new world is coming”—their dream of socialism—words followed over the years with ever-darkening laughter: “We should live so long.” Next, running throughout, I find the assumption that, for me, feminist activism is necessary. (No doubt this is a choice, but it hasn’t felt like one.) Finally, also all through, I hear a thrumming, inescapable, and sometimes much valued tone of uncertainty, an acceptance of the blundering in the dark that is part of all activism.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52678
ISBN:	978-0-8223-5874-9
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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