Queering the Second Wave: Volume 41 (Paragraph Special Issues)

by Lisa Downing (Editor), Downing Lisa (Author), Lara Cox (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2018

  $32.80

  Queering the Second Wave will consider the works and ideas of feminists including Monique Wittig, Shulamith Firestone, Andrea Dworkin, Marilyn Frye, Donna Haraway, Gloria Anzald a, and Cherr e Moraga as precursors of queer theoretical writings by names such as Judith Butler, Marie-H l ne Sam Bourcier, Lee Edelman, Paola Bacchetta, and Judith Jack Halberstam. While acknowledging some of the problems and blindspots of second-wave politics and writing, we nevertheless seek to challenge the assumption that second-wave feminism is politically outdated or invalid. Instead, we imagine cross-generational and cross-discursive dialogues, and trace a genealogy of influence between the second-wave past and the queer present, while also speculating, in some cases, on previously unimagined queer-feminist futures.

  Key Features
  * Contains key contributors in the field of feminism and queer theory.
  * Two of the leading names discussed in the book - Moraga and Halberstam are also, themselves, contributors to Queering the Second Wave.
  * Reignites debates about second-wave feminism.