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Tables of Contents for Why Feminism?
Chapter/Section Title
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Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction: Why Feminism?
1
8
Generations of Feminism
9
29
Acts of Memory
10
2
Dubious Contrasts
12
5
Rowbotham's `Seventies' Feminism
17
4
The Collapse of a Vision
21
6
A New Fundamentalism
27
2
The Turn to `Theory'
29
4
Political Agendas
33
5
Gender to Queer, and Back Again
38
40
The Rise of Gender Theory
39
4
The Allure of Difference
43
6
The Romance of Otherness
49
6
The Joys of Queer
55
5
Transgender Dialogues
60
6
Back to Gender?
66
4
The Future of Gender
70
8
Genes and Gender: The Return to Darwin
78
38
Science versus Culture?
79
2
Survival and Sexual Selection
81
5
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Contender
86
8
The Tale of the Female Ape
94
6
Theoretical Pluralists: The Enemy Within
100
4
Gene Talk versus Social Change
104
7
For Epistemic Diversity
111
5
Psychic Life and its Scandals
116
33
Tricks of Memory
117
3
Dilemmas of Science
120
3
Troubled Vision
123
1
Feminist Denunciations
124
3
Fantasy versus Trauma
127
6
Models of Memory
133
4
Memory as Narrative
137
4
Betrayal versus Abuse?
141
4
Narratives in Context
145
4
Gender Anxieties at the Limits of Psychology
149
25
Feminism Enters the Academy
150
2
Still Searching for Sex Differences
152
2
Feminist Psychology and Social Constructionism
154
2
Openness to Gender Heterodoxy
156
4
The Predicament of Men
160
4
Projects for Reforming Masculinity
164
6
Deconstructing Gender
170
1
Subjectivity and Change
171
3
Cautionary Tales: Between Freud and Feminism
174
26
Opening Skirmishes
176
3
Imagining the Void
179
6
Oedipal Dramas and the Crisis of Paternal Authority
185
5
The First Bond and its Consequences
190
3
Retrenchment versus Renewal?
193
2
Sexual Difference versus Gender: Accepting Ambiguity
195
5
Only Contradictions on Offer: Feminism at the Millennium
200
33
Snapshots of Gender
201
5
The Subject of Dependency
206
3
Family Values
209
2
Sweeping Anti-statism
211
4
Switching to the Subject
215
2
Activist Challenges
217
3
Disciplinary Feminism
220
3
Cultural Imperatives
223
2
Feminism without Politics
225
4
Political Futures
229
4
Notes
233
41
Index
274