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'If I were to name one feature of feminist theorizing in the seventies for which I am openly nostalgic, it is the conviction then widely held that there was important work to be done - work that could be supported in the name of feminism not because all feminists held the same priorities, but because that work had a radical thrust, from which we believed feminists - and women - would generally gain some benefit'- EFK
— Dec 28, 2012 06:24PM
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Witnessing Miller's melancholic tone, partially due to aging, partly due to her distance from the fervent feminism of her formative years: 'I confess: I look back wistfully to the seventies and the extraordinary conjunction of structuralism and feminism that fed both my writing and my life. But, most of all, I miss the passion of community, as well as our belief that things would change.'
— Dec 28, 2012 06:14PM
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"I want to propose the notion of memoir as prosthesis - an aid to memory. What helps you remember. In this sense what memoirs do is support you in the act of remembering. The memoir boom, then, should be understood not as a proliferation of self-serving representations of individualistic memory but as an aid or a spur to keep cultural memory alive."
— Dec 26, 2012 05:55PM
