American feminist thought at century's end : a reader /

This anthology represents some of the best and worst that academic feminism has to offer. Contributions from such luminaries as bell hooks, Sandra Harding, Evelyn Fox Keller, Cynthia Enloe, Joan Wallach Scott, and Catherine MacKinnon are by turns lucid, provocative, challenging, and brilliant, but unfortunately this standard is not maintained throughout the book. Some of the pieces are so jammed with jargon that many readers will have difficulty making sense of them. Much of this material was written (and published) in the Eighties. As a result, more than one author sounds like Chicken Little, insisting that civil rights are under systematic attack by a Moral Majority-inspired administration and a right-wing Supreme Court and that widespread persecution of professors, censorship of pornography, and suppression of information about AIDS are at hand. For specialized collections only.-- Beverly Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.