Identity Politics in the Women's Movement Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Identity Politics: The Past, the Present, and the Future	1
Pt. I	The Problem: Questions and Challenges
1	The Politics of Difference	19
2	The Anti-Politics of Identity	23
3	The Fate of the Commons	35
4	The Struggle for Feminist Purity Threatens the Goals of Feminism	39
5	Identity Politics and Progress: Don't Fence Me In (or Out)	43
6	On Whose Behalf? Feminist Ideology and Dilemmas of Constituency	47
Pt. II	Claiming an Identity
7	The Black Feminist Statement	59
8	Who Am I If I'm Not My Father's Daughter? A Southerner Confronts Racism and Anti-Semitism	67
9	"We Are Who You Are": Feminism and Disability	71
10	Becoming the Third Wave	78
11	The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action	81
Pt. III	Multiple Identities
12	Presenting the Blue Goddess: Toward a Bicultural Asian-American Feminist Agenda	87
13	Sex Radical Politics, Sex-Positive Feminist Thought, and Whore Stigma	92
14	I Brake for Feminists: Debates and Divisions within Women's Studies	103
15	Changing the Subject: Male Feminism, Class Identity, and the Politics of Location	109
16	Report from the Bahamas	120
Pt. IV	Womanist/Black Feminist Perspectives
17	Black Women's Collectivist Movement Organizations: Their Struggles during the "Doldrums"	129
18	Introduction to Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology	146
19	The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies	163
20	ink: black on white	178
Pt. V	Deconstructing Sex and Gender
21	The Strange Case of Jackie East: When Identities Collide	183
22	Differences and Identities: Feminism and the Albuquerque Lesbian Community	197
23	Lesbian Community: Heterodox Congregation	208
24	Messages of Exclusion: Gender, Movements, and Symbolic Boundaries	211
25	Seventies Questions for Nineties Women	227
Pt. VI	Lessons on Inclusiveness
26	Challenging Imperialism in International Women's Organizations, 1888-1945	245
27	Organizing International Women's Day in the Niagara Peninsula	261
28	Sharing Power: A Latina in NOW	271
29	A Writing Spider Tries Again: From Separatist to Coalitional Identity Politics	277
30	"Look at the World through Women's Eyes": On Empathy and International Civil Society	291
Pt. VII	Building a Movement for the Twenty-First Century
31	Rethinking Identity Politics	307
32	Our Difference Is Our Strength	315
33	Having It All: The Search for Identity and Community	320
34	If Not with Others, How?	334
35	What Is Difficult Can Be Done at Once. What Is Impossible Takes a Little Longer: The Beijing Conference	339
	Contributors	346
	Index	353