The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary - Tapa dura

"At a time when the field is cleaved with irreconcilable differences between earlier epistemologies of feminisms and emergent perspectives, this book fills a major gap as it cuts across divides and speaks across eras and ideologies." -- Basuli Deb * Socialism and Democracy * "Ann Snitow is a hero of late twentieth-century radicalism, in its many guises. . . . [A] valuable resource for the ambitious future scholar/activist digging into feminism's past. . . . The Feminism of Uncertainty shines brightest when Snitow's uncertainty politics clash with the realities of action (and for Snitow, thinking, reading, and speaking are all actions)." -- Paula Rabinowitz * Women's Review of Books * "Snitow's work has always been very readable. Her prose has that luminous fluency that comes only after a writer has been steeped in decades of rigorous reading, writing and activism. These essays repeatedly emphasise how important her students are to her. ... For third- and fourth-wave feminist readers, The Feminism of Uncertainty will be both an introduction to Snitow's philosophy and a valuable reminder not to reinvent the feminist wheel." -- Emma Rees * Times Higher *

The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow's passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gender Diary"-which confronts feminism's need to embrace, while dismantling, the category of "woman"-Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely mixing genres in vibrant prose, she considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-reflexive accounts of her own organizing, writing, and teaching. Her pieces on international activism, sexuality, motherhood, and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminism's impossible contradictions-and its utopian hopes.