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'This final, short book, is the unfolding development of a life and a mind. It reminds us that she was never primarily a political activist, but a writer and, to herself, a scholar ... Since she died last year, a victim of her en.

Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism does not reveal--the interests of gays and lesbians to be sure, but also those of men, and of constituencies and values beyond the realm of sex and gender--we might need to take a break from feminism. Halley also invites feminism to abandon its uncritical relationship to its own power. Feminists are, in many areas of social and political life, partners in governance. To govern responsibly, even on behalf of women, Halley urges, feminists should try taking a break from their own presuppositions. Halley offers a genealogy of various feminisms and of gay, queer, and trans theories as they split from each other in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. All these incommensurate theories, she argues, enrich thinking on the left not despite their break from each other but because of it. She concludes by examining legal cases to show how taking a break from feminism can change your very perceptions of what's at stake in a decision and liberate you to decide it anew.

This essay argues that Andrea Dworkin's much derided argument against pornography may still prove productive if read in relation to her fiction. Taking note of the fact that Dworkin's own novels have been accused of being pornographic according to her criteria, the essay explores the possibility that her radical feminist anti-porn stance, inevitably described as something of a moralistic backlash by sex-liberals, could be seen as a continuation of the pornographic imagination it so vehemently protests. Through critical readings of Dworkin's novels Ice and Fire and Mercy, as well as her autobiographical works and theoretical writings on pornography, the essay demonstrates that the contradictions that beset her writings echo the contradictions inherent in our contemporary understanding of pornography. Much like the pornography she would resist, Dworkin's writings invite a solipsistic mode of reading, the experiential rewards of which are not so much of an interpretive as of a sensual nature. In so doing, Dworkin's fiction paradoxically proves an invaluable point of entry into the pornographic imagination, making evident its essentially monologic nature. While this circumstance may be damaging for her status as an agitator, it points to her continued—if as yet largely unacknowledged—importance as a writer.

This dissertation explores the relations between gender and crisis in Arabic literature from the late 1960s to the present. Working in a regional Arab context, the author defines crisis as an endemic situation of political paralysis and cultural stagnation, one historically connected to the Arab world's failure to obtain the political freedoms, economic independence, and social reforms aspired to in anticolonial nationalism. Reading a hybrid mix of four novels, a novella, a poetic memoir, and two poems by Ghassan Kanafani (2004), Sahar Khalifeh, Fadwa Tuqan, Mayy al-Sayigh, Rashid al-Daif (2007), Jabbur al-Duwayhi, and Sonallah Ibrahim (2001), he illustrates the dynamic role played by gender in the following national-regional crises: the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the ongoing legacy of tribal and sectarian conflict in Lebanon, and the alliance between comprador capitalism and the police state in Egypt. He argue that the emergence of gender as an active crucible of crisis in Arabic literature is specific to the late modern period during which the selected texts were written.

Grant discusses the most controversial concept of the late radical feminist thinker Andrea Dworkin: the position that all sexuality is based in violence and male domination. Although Grant does not fully accept this postulate which is so central to Dworkin's thought, she finds it worthy of reexamination.

\"2 Scholar Robert Fisher declares this type of community-based activism the \"hallmark of the era,\" and other scholars, mostly in the fields of political science and sociology, have pointed to the important role such organizing has had on community efficacy and public policy.-' Writer and community organizer Makani Thcmba, for example, concludes that \"efforts that engage community residents and give them a sense of their own power enhance a community's ability to solve problems and strengthen individual members' sense of community. [...] the fight against adult businesses gave residents of South Minneapolis's neighborhoods something successful to build from in challenging full-scale neighborhood-clearance schemes.

There I was, standing at Gate Three, in faded Levis and a cable knit kelly green sweater; the late afternoon sun was shining in sheets off the steel sides of the airplanes parked at angles around the terminal. Somehow her words got behind my defenses, because months later, when I joined the Anti-Sexual Harassment Task Force at the University of Wisconsin, I yelled out Andrea Dworkin when the group asked for the names of potential speakers to bring to the Union Theater. The people on Flight 590 filed off the plane; most were weary business travelers on their way home from a week in New York City or some other East Coast city. Bills from the hospital, letters of dropped classes from the university, notifications of bounced checks, bulk mail from a real estate agent, and a Monet postcard.

According to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. InOur Lives Before the Law, Baer thus presents the framework for a new feminist jurisprudence--one that would return feminism to relevance by connecting it in fresh and creative ways with liberalism. Baer starts from the traditional feminist premise that the legal system has a male bias and must do more to help women combat violence and overcome political, economic, and social disadvantages. She argues, however, that feminist scholarship has over-corrected for this bias. By emphasizing the ways in which the system fails women, feminists have lost sight of how it can be used to promote women's interests and have made it easy for conventional scholars to ignore legitimate feminist concerns. In particular, feminists have wrongly linked the genuine flaws of conventional legal theory to its basis in liberalism, arguing that liberalism focuses too heavily on individual freedom and not enough on individual responsibility. In fact, Baer contends, liberalism rests on a presumption of personal responsibility and can be used as a powerful intellectual foundation for holding men and male institutions more accountable for their actions. The traditional feminist approach, Baer writes, has led to endless debates about such abstract matters as character differences between men and women, and has failed to deal sufficiently with concrete problems with the legal system. She thus constructs a new feminist interpretation of three central components of conventional theory--equality, rights, and responsibility--through analysis of such pressing legal issues as constitutional interpretation, reproductive choice, and fetal protection. Baer concludes by presenting the outline of what she calls \"feminist post-liberalism\": an approach to jurisprudence that not only values individual freedoms but also recognizes our responsibility for addressing individuals' needs, however different those may be for men and women. Powerfully and passionately written,Our Lives Before the Lawwill have a major impact on the future course of feminist legal scholarship.

According to Marinucci, there is an obvious chronological connection between Generation X and the Third Wave feminism. The Brady Bunch stands out as a pop culture icon with which this generation is especially obsessed. Drawing on both the content and context of The Brady Bunch, she explores the connection between Third Wave feminist attitudes and the so-called Generation X attitude.