15 Friendship, Love, and Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Remembering a Life
6. Philosophy—A Lifeline 15
7. Within Some Not-So-Hallowed Halls of Ivy: Mid to Late 1960s 21
8. Unwrapping Anger 37
9. A Chinese Fortune Cookie 51
10. No, I Didn’t Leave: A Cautionary Tale 57
11. An Affirmative-Action Poster Professor 63
12. A Sketchy History of “Political Incorrectness” as Experienced by a Survivor 73
13. Do You, or Does Someone You Know, Have Vaginal Fortitude? 83
14. Individual Need and Societal Change: A Balancing Act Inspired by Virginia Woolf 87
15. Can Men Really Not Control Themselves? A Response to Camille Paglia, 1991 91
16. Focusing on Violence While Empowering Its Victims 95
17. Two Days in the Life of an Academic Feminist: Mid 1990s 107
18. An Aunt’s Death: 1997 113
19. How Theory Emerges from, Incorporates, and Challenges Such Experiences
20. Different Oppressions: A Feminist Exploration of Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew 121
21. Friendship, Love, and Experience 141
22. I’m Sort ofWhite and Mostly Middle Class— Want to Make Something of It? 155
23. Identity Politics, Standpoint Theory, and Objectivity: An Ongoing Argument with My Friend Diane L. Fowlkes 179
24. Calvin Hears a Who: Calvin O. Schrag and Postmodern Selves 201
25. Navigating Treacherous Waters: A Tentative Conclusion 213
26. Notes 221
27. Selected Bibliography 235
28. Index 241