Compounding Differences

This vastly complicates our task, indeed, at times promises to undo it entirely. Yet those who have pursued such avenues, who have risked mixing analyses of gender and women, of language and material conditions, who have tried to reconstruct and deconstruct simultaneously, provide some challenging i...

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Published in:Feminist studies 1992-07, Vol.18 (2), p.313-326
Main Author: Hewitt, Nancy A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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African Americans
Alchemy
Black literature
Borders
Colleges & universities
Deconstructionism
Derrida, Jacques
English for special purposes
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Ethnicity
Evaluation
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Feminism
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Gender identity
Gender politics
Gender relations
Historical text analysis
Historiography
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Jewish people
Literary theory
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Meaning
Mental depression
Militancy
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Patriarchy
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Power
Race
Reading
Reconstruction
Sexual violence
Sisters
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Women's rights
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Summary:This vastly complicates our task, indeed, at times promises to undo it entirely. Yet those who have pursued such avenues, who have risked mixing analyses of gender and women, of language and material conditions, who have tried to reconstruct and deconstruct simultaneously, provide some challenging if slippery models. Jacquelyn Hall's "Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South" and "Partial Truths," Judith Walkowitz's commentary on "Patrolling the Borders: Feminist Historiography and the New Historicism," [Joan Wallach Scott]'s case studies in her Gender and the Politics of History, Alice Kessler-Harris's A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences, Patricia J. Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor, and, most recently, Laura Edwards's "Sexual Violence, Gender, Reconstruction, and the Extension of Patriarchy" offer different combinations and no doubt reflect different conceptualizations, of theory, politics, and history. Yet taken together, they demonstrate the power and the promise of a feminist scholarship characterized by attention to difference, to language, and to multiple modes of analysis and presentation.(9) (9). Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South," Journal of American History 73 (September 1986): 354-82, and "Partial Truths," Signs 14 (Summer 1989): 902-11; Judith Walkowitz with Myra Jehlin and Bell Chevigny, "Patrolling the Borders: Feminist Historiography and the New Historicism," Radical History Review, no. 43 (Winter 1989): 23-42; Scott, Gender and the Politics of History; Alice Kessler-Harris, A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990); Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991); and Laura Edwards, "Sexual Violence, Gender, Reconstruction, and the Extension of Patriarchy in Granville County, North Carolina," The North Carolina Historical Review 68 (July 1991): 237-60. Edwards provides a particularly intricate portrayal of the power relations that inhere in race, class, and gender relations as played out in the messy multiplicity of everyday life. (12). [Paula Giddings], When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (New York: William Morrow, 1984); [Alma Garcia], "The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse," in Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cult
ISSN:0046-3663
2153-3873
DOI:10.2307/3178231