The Feminism of Uncertainty

The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitows passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gender Diary"which confronts feminisms need to embrace, while dismantling, the category of "woman"Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely mixing genres in vibrant prose, she considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-reflexive accounts of her own organizing, writing, and teaching. Her pieces on international activism, sexuality, motherhood, and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminisms impossible contradictionsand its utopian hopes.