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
A rich collection of essays on the importance of community to women's social, cultural, and political relationships
"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
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