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Article: In search of common ground. (identity politics and group membership among women regardless of culture, creed, denomination or ideology)
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
- Author:
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Though they speak in different tones and address different audiences, Not Only for Myself and Where Is Your Body? occupy common ground. (Tellingly, the dust jacket of each book features a dark background on which highlighted open hands reach across the title.) Each author writes with a determination to redirect constructively the energy that currently manifests in clashes between groups protective of the political and social terrain which they feel is threatened by the other, or by other groups.
In Not Only for Myself, Martha Minow invites the traditional combatants in the identity politics debate to consider the perspectives of the other, for the sake of the ...
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