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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Taking a Break from Feminism The Argument | |
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| My Complete and Total Lack of Objectivity | |
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| Taxonomies and Terms | |
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| m/f, m ??f, and Carrying a Brief for f | |
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| Governance Feminism | |
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| Feminism, Sexual and Reproductive | |
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| A Sex Lexicon | |
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| Convergentism and Divergentism | |
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| A Story of Sexual-Subordination Feminism and Its Others | |
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| Liberation and Responsibility | |
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| The Political/Theoretical Struggle over Taking a Break Before the Break: Some Feminist Priors | |
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| Power Feminism | |
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| Catharine A. MacKinnon, Early and Late | |
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| Cultural Feminism | |
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| Robin West, Caring for Justice | |
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| Mackinnon/West | |
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| Liberal Feminism | |
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| Convergentist and Divergentist Hybrid Feminism The Combahee River Collective Statement | |
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| The Combahee River Collective Statement/The Combahee River Collective Statement | |
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| Gayatri Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" | |
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| Mackinnon/West/Combahee River Collective/Spivak | |
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| The Break | |
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| Gay Identity/Feminism/Queer Theory | |
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| Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" | |
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| Receiving French Social Theory | |
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| Michel Foucault, Volume One | |
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| Foucault/Mackinnon/West/Gay Identity Politics | |
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| The Split, from Feminism and within It | |
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| Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet | |
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| Judith Butler, Gender Trouble | |
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| Butler/Mackinnon | |
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| Butler, "Imitation" | |
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| Rubin, "Interview" | |
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| Feminism from Its Outside: Queer Theory by Men | |
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| Leo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave?" | |
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| Bersani/Taking A Break | |
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| Duncan Kennedy, "Sexy Dressing" | |
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| Kennedy/Taking A Break | |
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| Feminism and Its Others | |
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| Feminist "Paralysis" | |
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| Paranoid Structuralism and the Moralized Mandate to Converge | |
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| An Experiment in Political Stylistics (do try this at home) | |
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| 1990-2000: From Political to Ethical Feminism | |
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| Marianne Hirsch, Evelyn Fox Keller, Conflicts in Feminism | |
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| 1990-95: Getting to Deadlock | |
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| Judith Butler, Joan W. Scott, Feminists Theorize the Political, Seyla Benhabib et al., Feminist Contentions | |
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| Around 1993: Mapping Feminism and Queer Theory | |
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| Henry Abelove, Miche`le Aina Barale,David M. Halperin, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | |
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| Sedgwick, Tendencies, Michael Warner, Fear of a Queer Planet | |
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| Mackinnon/Spivak/Warner/Sedgwick | |
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| Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor, feminism meets queer theory | |
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| 1998: Trans Theory Splits While Staying in Place | |
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| Jay Prosser, Second Skins | |
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| Prosser/Butler/Rubin | |
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| How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism Taking a Break to Decide (I) | |
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| The Costs of "Making Difference Costless" | |
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| Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services | |
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| The Costs and Benefits of Taking a Break from Feminism | |
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| The Costs | |
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| Getting Rid of Feminism | |
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| Silencing Women | |
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| Flight from Feminism, Imagined as Limits, to the "Queer Utopia," Imagined as Libertine, Unbounded or Libertarian | |
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| Definitional Violence; the Foreclosure of Critique; and the Reinscription of Heterosexism in Queer Theory | |
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| Reifying Mere Terminology | |
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| Matricide, Misogyny, and Male Identification | |
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| Weakening Feminism and So Harming Real Women | |
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| The Benefits | |
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| Breaking with the Politics of Injury/Seeing around Corners of Our Own Construction | |
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| Seeing the Brain Drain as a Good Thing | |
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| Resisting Bad Faith | |
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| Minimizing Moral Perfectionism and Magic Realism | |
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| Deconstituting Women's Suffering | |
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| Taking a Break to Decide (II) | |
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| Twyman v. Twyman | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |