Feminism and Community

• Preface - Marilyn Friedman Introduction: Feminist Reflections on Community - Penny A. Weiss Part I: Women in Traditional Communities 1. A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women - Lila Abu-Lughod 2. A Letter from a Battered Wife - Del Martin 3. The Death of the Profane: A Commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing, - Patricia J. Williams 4. Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 - Emily Honig 5. The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman - Kate Rushin Part II: Women in Feminist Communities 6. Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930 - Estelle Freedman 7. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: An Illegal Feminist Abortion Collective: How and Why It Worked - Pauline B. Bart 8. The Furies Collective - Rita Mae Brown 9. Sisterhood and Friendship as Feminist Models - Maria C. Lugones (in collaboration with Pat Alake Rosezelle) 10. Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project - Byllye Y. Avery 11. Lesbian Community: Heterodox Congregation - Marilyn Frye Part III: Feminist Communitarianism 12. Feminism and Communitarianism: Comparing Critiques of Liberalism - Penny A. Weiss 13. Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community - Marilyn Friedman 14. Non-Contractual Society: A Feminist View - Virginia Held 15. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference - Iris Marion Young 16. Feminism, Family, and Community - Jean Bethke Elshtain 17. Separating from Heterosexualism - Sarah Lucia Hoagland 18. Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women - bell hooks 19. Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research - Joan Ringelheim 20. Feminism and Democratic Community - Jane Mansbridge 21. Feminist Communities and Moral Revolution - Ann Ferguson 22. If Not with Others, How? - Adrienne Rich About the Contributors

"Construing 'community' extremely broadly, from personal friendship to global dreams, this imaginative collection reveals the diversity of women's experiences in both traditional and feminist communities." --Alison M. Jaggar, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder