Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed

The contributors to Radically Speaking show that a radical feminist analysis cuts across class, race, sexuality, region, religion and across the generations. It is essential reading for Women's Studies, sociology, cultural studies, and anyone interested in processes of social change. Thecollection reveals the global reach of radical feminism and analyze the causes and solutions to patriarchal oppression. Seventy writers discuss their ideas and practice of contemporary feminism.

Monster / Robin Morgan -- Beware: radical feminists speak, read, write, organise, enjoy life, and never forget / Diane Bell and Renate Klein -- Women of all nations / Inés Talamantez -- Light bulbs, radishes, and the politics of the 21st century / Robin Morgan -- Radical feminism: history, politics, action / Robyn Rowland and Renate Klein -- Experience, reflection, judgment and action: teaching theory, talking community / Joy James -- From practice to theory, or what is a white woman anyway? / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Maori-lesbian-feminist radical / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Enabling a visible black lesbian presence in academia: a radically reasonable request / Angela Bowen -- Working-class radical feminism: lives beyond the text / Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek -- Politics of intimacy: heterosexuality, love and power / Robyn Rowland -- The great incest hijack / Louise Armstrong.

Therapy and how it undermines the practice of radical feminism / Celia Kitzinger -- The personal is political / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Looking for God in all the wrong places: feminists seeking the radical questions in religion / Morny Joy -- The narrow bridge of art and politics / Suzanne Bellamy -- T…