Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Women in Traditional Communities
1. A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women
2. A Letter from a Battered Wife
3. The Death of the Profane: A Commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing
4. Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1319-1949
5. The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman
II. Women in Feminist Communities
6. Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930
7. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: An Illegal Feminist Abortion Collective - How and Why It Worked
8. The Furies Collective
9. Sisterhood and Friendship as Feminist Models
10. Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project
11. Lesbian Community: Heterodox Congregation
III. Feminist Communitarianism
12. Feminism and Communitarianism: Comparing Critiques of Liberalism
13. Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community
14. Non-Contractual Society: A Feminist View
15. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference
16. Feminism, Family, and Community
17. Separating from Heterosexualism
18. Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women
19. Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research
20. Feminism and Democratic Community
21. Feminist Communities and Moral Revolution
22 If not with Others, How?
About the Contributors