Slow Change or No Change

Feminism, Socialism and the Problem of Men

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3946182
AutoresLynne Segal (autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen31
Número1
Páginas5-21
Fecha de publicación1989-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1395087
OpenAlexW4252959156
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas18

'Love Your Enemy?', revolutionary feminists mockingly named their political manifesto of 1979, expressing the accumulated rage of some feminists after a decade of women's liberation. In it they exhorted all feminists to abandon heterosexuality at once. (Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, 1981) Another decade on, and loving or hating one's 'enemy' seems largely irrelevant to whether one accepts subordination or struggles against it. We may well hate those against whose customary power and authority over us we would never think of rebelling. We may well love those whose power and authority over us we begin to challenge and overthrow. Knowing your enemy, on the other hand, is always relevant. For the success of women's struggle against men's habitual power, knowing the forces of opposition lined up against women's full autonomy and equality will always be necessary. But feminists share little agreement about the nature of this 'enemy'

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