Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out

by Donna Marie Perry

Book Overview

Agents or victims, liberated or oppressed, "bad girls" or "good girls." What do these labels mean and do they further or hinder women's progress? How are today's visions of female sexuality and power like or unlike those of the past? How do younger women define feminism? Isn't the personal still political? Dismayed by the media's tendency to reduce the feminist enterprise to labels and superstars, Donna Perry and Nan Bauer Maglin decided to find out...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813519918
• ISBN13: 9780813519913
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"