In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism

Margaretta Jolly

March, 2008
Cloth, 328 pages, 9 b&w figures
ISBN: 978-0-231-13792-8
$40.00 / £23.50

Introduction. The Feminist World of Love and Ritual

Part I. Yours in Sisterhood . . .

1. Love Letters to a New Me

2. Feminist Epistolary Romance

3. Velvet Boxing Gloves

Part II: Letter Writing and the Ethics of Care

4. Theorizing Feminist Letters

5. Mothers and Daughters in Correspondence

6. Writing the Web: Letters from the Women’s Peace Movement

7. Do Webs Work? Letters and the Clash of Communities

Part III: The Right to Be Cared For: Letters and the Life Cycle of a Social Movement

8. Care Versus Autonomy: The Problem of (Loving) Men

9. The Paradox of Care as a Right

10. How Different Is E-mail?

11. Care Ethics Online

Part IV: The Afterlife of Letters

12. On Burning and Saving Letters

13. Stealing Letters: The Ethics of Epistolary Research

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Women's Studies

Series

• Gender and Culture Series

About the Author

Margaretta Jolly has published widely on letters and women's writing. She is a director of the Centre for Life History Research and senior lecturer in the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex, as well as the editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing and Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War.

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