Is the future female? troubled thoughts on contemporary feminism

Segal, Lynne (1987) Is the future female? troubled thoughts on contemporary feminism. London, UK: Virago Press. ISBN 9781853820908.

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Abstract

Book synopsis: The author challenges many feminist orthodoxies - on female sexuality, pornography, war and peace, psychanalysis and sociobiology. She argues against the exponents - such as Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin and Dale Spender - of apocalyptic feminism, which says that men wield power over women through terror, greed and violence and that only women, because of their essentially greater humanity can save the world from social, ecological and nuclear disaster. Segal urges that to base the politics of feminism on innate and essential differences between men and women is mistaken, dangerous, and basically a counsel of despair, since its logical conclusion is that nothing can change. Things emphatically have changed for women, she asserts, and we must build on these changes, combining autonomy with alliances to alter power relations and forge a new future for both women and men.

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Item Type:	Book
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2017 16:32
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:35
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19693

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