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Article: Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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By JANE GERHARD. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 232. $45.00 (cloth); $17.50 (paper).
Second-wave feminism has gotten a bad rap recently. In the 1990s, with the advent of poststructuralist feminism and queer theory in the academy and the more widely publicized if not widely embraced "postfeminism" of Naomi Wolf, Katie Roiphe, et al., North American academics and activists alike rewrote second-wave feminism as old-fashioned, essentialist, and/or antisex. This revision followed important and timely critiques by feminists of color in the 1980s (in such works as the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back) that pointed out the ...