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... Extending the method of subjunctive reading outlined in chapter 1, chapter 2 looks to second-wave feminist and gay liberationist histories of witchcraft, thinking about how these histories homogenize subjunctive potentiality into (overstated) indicative claims and how those histories, in failing...

... by feminist bookstore histories might look like. The epilogue uses the term “feminist remembering” to name the writing of movement histories with attention to feminist accountability, a writing that requires us to hold both the painful breaks and the powerful connections of feminist bookwomen’s history...

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... character flaws. The chapter offers a feminist history of willfulness in which a diagnosis becomes self-description. The chapter argues that willfulness matters especially for black women and women of color and draws specifically on Alice Walker’s definition of womanism. willfulness feminist history...

... of snappy women within feminist history and considers how feminist snap is a form of optimism (but one that does not fill the future with content). The chapter concludes by considering how feminist snap can be collective by drawing on readings of snap within three feminist films from the early 1980s...

...Becoming Feminist This chapter explores how the histories that lead us to feminism are the histories that leave us fragile. It offers an account of how feminism begins with a sense of things—as being wrong—and how we acquire knowledge through making sense of what does not at first make sense...