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Joined by Professor of Education Carol Gilligan and Bina Agarwal, an economist from the University of Delhi and a former visiting professor in women's studies, the panel engaged in a broad-based discussion on the current state of the feminist movement...
Lerner, the first panelist to speak, gave a historical perspective on Wollstonecraft as a feminist thinker...
Lerner contrasted Wollstonecraft to her feminist predecessors in the 17th century, arguing that her major innovation was the inclusion of poor, single and middle class women into John Locke's framework of human rights...
...there are many gems of wisdom amidst the rubble. Novelist McDermott speaks poignantly of the expectations of women writers who are also mothers, and writer Marge Piercy speaks of the writer's responsibilities to public life. Satirist Alison Lurie has an intelligent and balanced view of the price of feminist separatism, and novelist Anne Lamott draws surprising connections between women's literature and culture and therapy. And nanogenarian poet Janet Lewis has fabulous insights into women's history. As she says, "the funny thing about women is that there have always been startling and tremendous women all along, regardless...
This brings the reader back to the question of empowerment, a very feminist notion. But this book's message and Chellis' voice are far from feminist. Instead of recognizing the societal and cultural barriers that women contend with, Chellis chides readers not to "blame the system." The absence of minority women from the lower echelons of society highlight the book's and the author's tenuous conclusions...