Elisabeth Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Smith College.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Feminist Critique 1. Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution 2. Feminism on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 3. The Tyranny of Poststructurelessness 4. Lesbian Sexuality Becomes an Issue 5. Struggle and the Feminist Intellectual ConclusionNotesManuscript CollectionsIndex

"The author regards political organization as cause and effect and notes correctly a dialectical relationship between organization and theory and practice. What is most insightful is how she discusses the common epistemological assumptions of opposing theories and focuses on the extremely interesting and surely relevant question of how feminists disagree." — Chana Kai Lee, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"The decision to talk about political practice, rather than endlessly to dissect the subject of that practice, is wonderfully refreshing." — Barbara Foley, author of Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941

Elisabeth Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Smith College.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Feminist Critique 1. Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution 2. Feminism on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 3. The Tyranny of Poststructurelessness 4. Lesbian Sexuality Becomes an Issue 5. Struggle and the Feminist Intellectual ConclusionNotesManuscript CollectionsIndex

"The author regards political organization as cause and effect and notes correctly a dialectical relationship between organization and theory and practice. What is most insightful is how she discusses the common epistemological assumptions of opposing theories and focuses on the extremely interesting and surely relevant question of how feminists disagree." — Chana Kai Lee, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"The decision to talk about political practice, rather than endlessly to dissect the subject of that practice, is wonderfully refreshing." — Barbara Foley, author of Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941

Elisabeth Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Smith College.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Feminist Critique 1. Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution 2. Feminism on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 3. The Tyranny of Poststructurelessness 4. Lesbian Sexuality Becomes an Issue 5. Struggle and the Feminist Intellectual ConclusionNotesManuscript CollectionsIndex

"The author regards political organization as cause and effect and notes correctly a dialectical relationship between organization and theory and practice. What is most insightful is how she discusses the common epistemological assumptions of opposing theories and focuses on the extremely interesting and surely relevant question of how feminists disagree." — Chana Kai Lee, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"The decision to talk about political practice, rather than endlessly to dissect the subject of that practice, is wonderfully refreshing." — Barbara Foley, author of Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941