Mean Spirits

The Politics of Contempt Between Feminist Generations

Bibliographic Data

ID22932329
AuthorsMadelyn Detloff (corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume12
Issue3
Pages76-99
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.1997.tb00006.x
OpenAlexW2056774475
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited13

Current models for individuatton in academe exacerbate generational tensions between second and third wave feminists. Feminist pedagogues must be wary of getting caught in the “vicious circle of contempt,” where students are expected to compensate for a teacher's past narcissistic wounds, instead, we must be willing to mourn the wounds we have received at the hands of a contemptuous culture and to acknowledge same-gender attachments that are disavowed in dialectical models of subject production.

Aesthetics · Contempt · Dialectic · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology