Passing on Feminism From Consciousness to Reflexivity?

• Published in: The European journal of women's studies Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 427 - 444
• Main Author: Adkins, Lisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi SAGE Publications 01.11.2004; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Articulation; Attachment; Cultural values; Dominance; Epistemology; Females; Feminism; Gender; Historiography; History; Inheritance; Inheritance and succession; Intellectual History; Knowledge; Popular culture; Postfeminism; Property; Reflexivity; Reliance; Social reproduction; Time; Women; Womens history; feminism; history; gender; the social; knowledge

As has been widely observed, histories of feminism have often been conceived via notions of generation where feminism is positioned as a kind of familial property, a form of inheritance and legacy which is transmitted through generations. Thus feminism and its history have been imagined as following...