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Book Reviews : Feminist Experiences: the Women's Movement in Four Cultures

The redeeming feature of this book lies in the use of personal experiences by the author to make accessible to readers her perceptions of the women’s movement in the United States, East Germany, Italy and Britain. The attempt to combine these experiences with a study of feminist thought and practice in four societies is, however, riddled with inconsistencies. The author admits to the problem of finding a balance between personal experience and academic discourse. Defensively, she argues that she is not prejudiced in favour of any women’s movement. It soon transpires that the concern with language, meaning and culture voiced by the women’s movement in Italy and by East German novelists is held in far greater esteem than the ’hopelessly undialectic’ positions taken up by the Spare Rib collective in Britain, the ’exaggerated claims for the advancement of women in the United