Pomiędzy nowym a starym: feminizm wobec wyzwań współczesności
Between the New and the Old. Feminism and the Challenge of the Presen

Summary/Abstract: I attempt to outline the history and typology of feminism, and the way it reacts to such phenomena as the critique of feminist subjectivity or the challenge of multicuturalism. Indicating problems concerning the definition of feminism and its relation to politics, I present a summary of major feminist trends (liberal and radical feminism) and their propositions. I go on to show feminism/feminist approach to the problem of difference following the 1980 s critique of the feminist tendency to speak in the name of .all women., undertaken by nonheterosexual and nonwhite persons. I conclude with a reflection about the nature of contemporary feminism: how does it deal with diversity and multiplicity of views? has it learned from its earlier mistakes? At the end I discuss the changed attitude to difference, possibly exemplified by intersectionality theory and books such as Is Multicuturalism Bad for Women?

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