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Feminist Deaths and Feminism Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Astrid Henry
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When asked to reflect on the role of feminist criticism today, i immediately recalled the recent deaths of Betty Friedan and Andrea Dworkin. Friedan and Dworkin join an unfortunately growing list of well-known feminist thinkers who have died over the last few years. The passing of Friedan and Dworkin makes us think about the feminism they represented and indeed about the history of feminist thought itself, its ebbs and flows, its metaphoric births and deaths. Ideas, after all, are as living as people, with periods of growth, maturity, and decline.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 121 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 1717 - 1721
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2006

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