Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed

by Diane Bell (Editor), Renate Klein (Editor)

Showing that a radical feminist analysis cuts across class, race, sexuality, region, and religion, the varied contributors in this collection reveal the global reach of radical feminism and analyze the causes and solutions to patriarchal oppression.

Genres: Feminism, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Sexuality, Politics, Gender, Social

654 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

Reviews

[Sally Edsall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I imagine this will be used in Women's Studies courses. It is also accessible to the general reader, even ones whose university days are long behind them!

It is a very useful update on radical feminism - free of postmodern jargon (and positively hostile to post modernism in places. Little cheer from the sidelines on that score!)A whole section is devoted to an "interogation" of post modernism.

It does offer material from a number of cultural perspectives, so is not at all dismissive of their eing different views and experiences of feminism.

I think the editors are Australian, or at least worked there for long periods, and i think it shows. I have always found Australian feminism to be more eclectic, perhaps pragmatic, certainly less one-side posturing than some others. Australian feminists achieved a lot over the past 25 years, succeeding at infiltrating the very corridors of bureaucracy (a breed of bureaucrats known as Femocrats emerged). There were fundamental policy changes. Now rapidly being undone by a radically conservative govt. The need for feminism is not over, and this volume takes its place on the shelves, updating feminist thought and taking us back to the need to focus on the reality of women's lives. A good companion volume to Germaine Greer's The Whole Woman.

[l · Rating 1 out of 5]

I found a few authors to look into but otherwise it's just a collection of talking points and I don't have the time.

[Rosie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent and diverse anthology with a high amount of excellent articles. My favorite section was the one on postmodernism/poststructuralism. I am going to blame all the modern faults of our American culture on postmodernism. My all time favorite article was, of course, Denise Thomson's. Her prose is lovely as ever and I agree with basically everything she writes. Sheila Jeffreys comes in as a close second.

[Ryan Mishap · Rating 3 out of 5]

Huge anthology covering many topics in its attempt to define what Radical Feminism is, what it is against, and (somewhat) what it is for.