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Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism Paperback – September 7, 2004

by Astrid Henry (Author)
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"No matter how wise a mother's advice is, we listen to our peers." At least that's writer Naomi Wolf's take on the differences between her generation of feminists―the third wave―and the feminists who came before her and developed in the late '60s and '70s―the second wave. In Not My Mother's Sister, Astrid Henry agrees with Wolf that this has been the case with American feminism, but says there are problems inherent in drawing generational lines.

Henry begins by examining texts written by women in the second wave, and illustrates how that generation identified with, yet also disassociated itself from, its feminist "foremothers." Younger feminists now claim the movement as their own by distancing themselves from the past. By focusing on feminism's debates about sexuality, they are able to reject the so-called victim feminism of Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. Rejecting the orthodoxies of the second wave, younger feminists celebrate a woman's right to pleasure. Henry asserts, however, that by ignoring diverse older voices, the new generation has oversimplified generational conflict and has underestimated the contributions of earlier feminists to women's rights. They have focused on issues relating to personal identity at the expense of collective political action.

Just as writers like Wolf, Katie Roiphe, and Rene Denfeld celebrate a "new" feminist (hetero)sexuality posited in generational terms, queer and lesbian feminists of the third wave similarly distance themselves from those who came before. Henry shows how 1970s lesbian feminism is represented in ways that are remarkably similar to the puritanical portrait of feminism offered by straight third-wavers. She concludes by examining the central role played by feminists of color in the development of third-wave feminism. Indeed, the term "third wave" itself was coined by Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker.

Not My Mother's Sister is an important contribution to the exchange of ideas among feminists of all ages and persuasions.

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    September 7, 2004
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  6. Dimensions
    6.36 x 0.77 x 9.4 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    025321713X
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0253217134
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"Through analysis of second- and third-wave literature, Not My Mother's Sister provides an interesting psychological and sociological analysis of the conflict that has emerged between younger and older feminists. . . [The] issues raised in this text make a contribution to our understanding of the history of feminism and should be a welcome addition to women's studies courses . . . .Dec. 2005"―Psychology of Women Quarterly

"Henry makes a convincing case that third-wave feminism can be viewed as the rebellion of young women against their mothers and as their desire to have a feminism of their own . . . "2008"―R. Claire Snyder, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Astrid Henry is Louise R. Noun Chair in Women's Studies at Grinnell College, where she teaches in the Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her essays have been published in the journals Women's Studies Quarterly and PMLA, as well as in anthologies such as Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, Reading "Sex and the City," and Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (September 7, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 025321713X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0253217134
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.36 x 0.77 x 9.4 inches
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Astrid Henry is Louise R. Noun Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College. She is the author of Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism (Indiana University Press, 2004) and co-author of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements (Norton, 2014). Her essays have been published in the journals Feminist Studies, Women's Studies Quarterly, and PMLA, as well as in anthologies such as Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, Reading "Sex and the City," Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century, and The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism.

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5.0 out of 5 stars great overview of key debates
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Astrid Henry has written a terrific book on the central debates within and between feminism and queer theory. Specifically, Henry interogates the mother-daughter trope too often used to behead second wave feminists (women active in the 1970s and 1980) by third wavers and queer feminists. Such tropes, Henry pleads, are not helpful, given that they misrepresent the complexity of 70s feminist sexual thought and the careful reading done by many third (and fourth?) wavers of the work that preceeded them. If mother/daughter or generational approaches are not helpful, Henry's mapping out of the divides, rhetorical and lived, are. Henry has given us a road map through key third wave and queer feminst texts since the feminist sex wars and the demise of the anti-pornography movement. She shows us just how worn out are the notions that feminists are anti-sex and lesbians are anti-male. Now, if feminists-- whatever generation or type-- could stop demanding their own originality (thus killing off their mothers or daughters as the case may be) and embrace history, a history of rich feminist debate, we could, as Henry suggests, think past some old unproductive divides.

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