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>From the Chronicle:
A glance at the December issue of "ArtForum": The bashing of
feminism

Just as feminism was starting to "seep into the culture," a new
and mighty backlash against it arose, writes bell hooks, the
pseudonym of a professor of English at City College of the City
University of New York. In an article entitled "All Quiet on the
Feminist Front," she writes that feminism was enjoying a
fleeting popularity when critics stepped forward, in 1996, to
trounce it. Among them, bell hooks writes, were the author Nancy
Friday and academics such as Camille Paglia and Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, who wrote "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life."
bell hooks also writes that the O.J. Simpson trial and the
Million Man March "became the perfect patriarchal playing fields
for challenging and undermining feminist insistence on the
interlocking nature of systems of domination." People just don't
understand, she writes, that racism and sexism are linked and
that those bigotries sustain one another. The unfortunate
message of 1996, as she sees it, is this: Pretend neither racism
nor sexism exist, and stop whining about them. (The magazine may
be found at your newsstand or library.)
_

Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Professor of Writing and English
Director of Graduate Studies in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Writing Program, 239 HBC, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1160
lwphelps@syr.edu          315-443-1620 or 1091

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