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100 1 $aJolly, Margaretta.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98051097
245 10 $aIn love and struggle :$bletters in contemporary feminism /$cMargaretta Jolly.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $aix, 315 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aGender and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-290) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Feminist World of Love and Ritual --$gPt. I.$tYours in Sisterhood ... --$g1.$tLove Letters to a New Me --$g2.$tFeminist Epistolary Romance --$g3.$tVelvet Boxing Gloves --$gPt. II.$tLetter Writing and the Ethics of Care --$g4.$tTheorizing Feminist Letters --$g5.$tMothers and Daughters in Correspondence --$g6.$tWriting the Web: Letters from the Women's Peace Movement --$g7.$tDo Webs Work? Letters and the Clash of Communities --$gPt. III.$tThe Right to Be Cared For: Letters and the Life Cycle of a Social Movement --$g8.$tCare Versus Autonomy: The Problem of (Loving) Men --$g9.$tThe Paradox of Care as a Right --$g10.$tHow Different Is E-mail? --$g11.$tCare Ethics Online --$gPt. IV.$tThe Afterlife of Letters --$g12.$tOn Burning and Saving Letters --$g13.$tOn Stealing Letters: The Ethics of Epistolary Research.
520 1 $a"During the women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. Symbolically tearing up the love letter to an absent man, they wrote passionate letters to one another, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and strategy. These texts speak of the new interest women began to feel in one another and the new demands - and disappointments - these relationships would create." "Margaretta Jolly provides the first cultural study of these letters, charting the evolution of feminist political consciousness from the height of the women's movement to today's e-mail networks. Jolly uncovers the passionate, contradictory emotions of both politics and letter writing and sets out the theory behind them as a fragile yet persistent ideal of care ethics, women's love, and epistolary art. She follows several compelling feminist relationships sustained through writing and confronts the mixed messages of the "open letter," which complicated political relations between women (such as Audre Lorde's "Open Letter to Mary Daly," which called out white feminists for their implicit racism)." "Jolly recovers the unsung literature of lesbianism and feminist romance, examines the ambivalent feelings within mother-daughter correspondences, and considers letter-writing campaigns during the peace movement. She concludes with a discussion of the ethical dilemma surrounding care versus autonomy and the meaning behind the burning of saving of letters."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFeminists$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aFeminists$xSocial networks.
650 0 $aFeminism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124208
650 0 $aFeminism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103674
650 0 $aLetter writing$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLetters$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aElectronic mail messages$xSocial aspects.
830 0 $aGender and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84749515
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