Everywhere and Nowhere Contemporary Feminism in the United States [Paperback]

Challenging the idea that feminism in the United States is dead or in decline,Everywhere and Nowhereexamines the contours of contemporary feminism. Through a nuanced investigation of three feminist communities, Jo Reger shows how contemporary feminists react to the local environment currently shaping their identities, tactics, discourse, and relations with other feminist generations. By moving the analysis to the community level, Reger illustrates how feminism is simultaneously absent from the national, popular culture-- nowhere --and diffused into the foundations of American culture-- everywhere. Reger addresses some of the most debated topics concerning feminists in the twenty-first century. How do contemporary feminists think of the second-wave generation? Has contemporary feminism succeeded in addressing racism and classism, and created a more inclusive movement? How are contemporary feminists dealing with their legacy of gender, sex, and sexuality in a world of fluid identity and queer politics? The answers, she finds, vary by community.

Everywhere and Nowhereoffers a clear, empirical analysis of the state of contemporary feminism while also revealing the fascinating and increasingly complex development of community-level feminist groups in the United States.

Introduction - The Everywhere and Nowhere of U.S. Feminism in the 21st Century

Part 1: The Continuity of Contemporary Feminism
Chapter 1 - Life in Three Feminist Communities
Chapter 2 - Surfacing in Particular Waters
Chapter 3 - Dissension in the House of Feminism

Part 2: Doing and Talking Contemporary Feminism
Chapter 4 - Doing Contemporary Feminism
Chapter 5 - Grappling with Oppression and Privilege
Chapter 6 - It's a Brave, New Gendered and Sexed World

Conclusion
Appendix A: Interviewee Demographics
Appendix B: Case Study Comparisons
Bibliography

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