Agents or victims, liberated or oppressed, "bad girls" or "good girls." What do these labels mean and do they further or hinder women’s progress? How are today’s visions of female sexuality
and power like or unlike those of the past? How do younger women define feminism? Isn’t the personal still political?
Dismayed by the media’s tendency to reduce the feminist enterprise to labels and superstars, Donna Perry and Nan Bauer Maglin decided to find out what a diverse group of feminists think about
women, sex, and power in the nineties. The result is a provocative and varied collection of twenty-four essays by second- and third-wave feminists; artists and activists; professors and
graduate students; professional journalists and just-published writers; mothers and daughters. By focusing on society’s construction, containment, and exploitation of female sexuality, in
particular, these essays offer fresh perspectives on women’s agency or lack of it.
