Diane Bell - Radically Speaking

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Published by Spinifex Press, 1996

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed.
Bibliography.
Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-74219-367-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 978-1-74219-456-1 (ePub Format)

ISBN 1 875559 38 8.

1. Feminism. I. Bell, Diane, 1943. II. Klein, Renate, 1945.
305.4201

Truth Versus Loyalty: Speaking out on genital mutilation. 1996 Evelyne Accad. Towards Global Feminism: A Muslim perspective 1994 Mahnaz Afkhami, originally published as Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran in In the Eye of the Storm published by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. Amidst the Smoke We Remember: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo 1989 Marjorie Agosn, originally published in Women of Smoke: Latin American Women in Literature and Life published by Williams Wallace, Canada. Photograph from Circles of Madness, 1992 Alicia DAmico and Alicia Sanguinetti published by White Pine Press. The Great Incest Hijack originally published as Incest: A Journey to Hullabulloo, Reprinted with permission, work originally appeared in Women and Therapy, 17 (1/2), 1995 Haworth Press Inc. Binghampton. NY, USA. A Feminist University: The thrill and challenges, conflicts and rewards of trying to establish an alternative education 1996 Berit s. Deconstructing Deconstructionism (or whatever happened to feminist studies?) 1991 Kathleen Barry, reprinted by permission of Ms. Magazine. The banned professor, how radical feminism saved me from men trapped in mens bodies and female impersonators, with a little help from my friends 1996 Pauline Bart. Speaking of things that shouldnt be written: Cross cultural excursions into the land of misrepresentations 1996 Diane Bell. Beware: Radical feminists speak, read, write, organise, enjoy life, and never forget 1996, Diane Bell & Renate Klein. The narrow bridge of art and politics 1996 Suzanne Bellamy. Take Your Pageant and Shove It 1983 Angela Bowen originally published in Village Voice, November 8, 1983. Enabling a Visible Black Lesbian Presence in Academia: A Radically Reasonable Request 1996 Angela Bowen. Nothing mat(t)ers 1992 Somer Brodribb, originally published in Nothing Mat(t)ers: A feminist critique of postmodernism, Spinifex Press. Withdrawing Her Energy 1996 Somer Brodribb. Generation X, the Third Wave or just plain radical: Reviewing the reviewers of Catharine MacKinnons Only Words. 1996 Deirdre Carraher, Sharon M.Cox, Elizabeth Daake, Michele Gagne, Patricia Good, Jessie McManmon & Marjorie OConnor. The Race for Theory 1987 Barbara Christian, by permission of Oxford University Press. The Last Post for Feminism from Out of the Frying Pan: Inflammatory Writing 197289 1990 Sandra Coney, published by Penguin Books New Zealand. The Witches Return 1992 Mary Daly from Outercourse: The Witches Return reprinted by permission from HarperCollins Publishers Inc. and from Spinifex Press. French Feminism: An imperialist invention 1996, Christine Delphy. Ill take the low road: A look at contemporary feminist theory. 1996, Carol Anne Douglas. Surfing the edge of the alphabet 1996 Beryl Fletcher, Susan Sayer & Cathie Dunsford. Dworkin on Dworkin 1990, Andrea Dworkin reprinted from Trouble and Strife, 19 Summer, 1990. Feminist Education Research De-Radicalized: A Warning From Germany 1996 Uta Enders-Dragsser & Brigitte Sellach. The Posse Rides Again 1994 Marcia Ann Gillespie reprinted by permission of Ms. Magazine. The Marketplace of Ideas 1994 Evelina Giobbe originally published Action Agenda, 1(3), 34 reprinted by permission of Media Watch. From theories of indifference to a wild politics 1996 Susan Hawthorne. Deconstructing Fashion 1990 Susan Hawthorne. Gender as a Post-modern category of paralysis 1994 Joan Hoff, published in Womens History Review June 1994. Experience, Reflection, Judgement and Action: Teaching Theory, Talking Community 1993 Joy James, from Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe, reproduced by permission of Routledge, New York. Return to Gender: Post-modernism and Lesbianandgay Theory 1993 Sheila Jeffreys, originally published in The Lesbian Heresy Spinifex Press. Looking for God in all the wrong places: Feminists seeking the radical questions in religion 1996 Morny Joy. Therapy and How it Undermines the Practice of Radical Feminism originally published as Depoliticising the Personal: A Feminist Slogan in Feminist Therapy, by Celia Kitzinger, reprinted from Womens Studies International Forum, 16 48696 1993 with permission from Elsevier Science Ltd, Pergamon Imprint, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington OX5, UK. (Dead) Bodies Floating in Cyberspace 1996 Renate Klein. Selling a Feminist Agenda on a Conservative Market: The Awakening Experience in Taiwan 1996 Yenlin Ku. On who is calling radical feminists cultural feminists and other historical sleights of hand 1996 Tania Lienert From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway? 1991 Catharine MacKinnon, originally published in Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 4 1322. Statement on Canadian Customs and Legal Approaches to Pornography: Statement 1994 Catharine McKinnon & Andrea Dworkin from Action Agenda, 1(3) 58, reprinted by permission of Media Watch. Working-class Radical Feminism: Lives Beyond the Text 1996 Pat Mahony & Christine Zmroczek. The Past is the Present 1996 Teboho E.Maitse. Freedom and Democracy: Russian Male Style 1996 Tatyana Mamonova. Post-modernism and its Contribution to Ending Violence Against Women 1996 Katja Mikhailovich. Excerpt Monster from Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New 19681988 1990 Robin Morgan, by permission of Edite Kroll Literary Agency. Femicide: A framework for understanding genocide 1996 Natalie Nenadic. Womens Health Project 1996 Nganampa Health Council and the Ngaayatjarra, Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytatjara Womens Council. Women As Wombs 1993 Janice G.Raymond reprinted by permission from HarperCollins Publishers Inc. and from Spinifex Press. Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong: On the Maligning of Radical Feminism 1996 Diane Richardson. Common LanguageDifferent Cultures? 1996 Powhiri Rika-Heke & Sigrid Markmann. Repackaging women and feminism: Taking the heat off patriarchy from