... This chapter explores how and why in becoming feminists we are often designated as willful subjects: as being a problem because of our will. Returning to folklore and fictional fables of willful girls, it explores how willfulness is used to diagnose disobedience and dissent as deriving from...

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... This chapter explores how and why in becoming feminists we are often designated as willful subjects: as being a problem because of our will. Returning to folklore and fictional fables of willful girls, it explores how willfulness is used to diagnose disobedience and dissent as deriving from character flaws...

..., notably his discovery that the most effective critic is the one who is willing to be a servant, and the most effective servant is the one who is willing to be a critic. disaster leadership building community social cohesion unifying creed civil religion ...

... to it and willing to make the necessary sacrifices to be part of this movement? The answers lie in aspects of his character and lifestyle choices, in the quality of his musical art as composer, pianist, and bandleader, and, most importantly, in the role he forged and the example his life set as a community artist...

... out of the struggle for an ordinary life, and how we can think of lesbian feminism as a willfulness archive assembled from the shattered pieces left behind from that struggle. The chapter offers a way of thinking of lesbian feminism as the building of a fragile shelter. It suggests that this fragility...