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During the 1980s and 1990s, a disjunction developed between academic feminism, which increasingly took itself as its object of study, and feminist theory and politics outside of the classroom. In her Modern Feminist Thought, Imelda Whelehan argues that this "crisis" in feminism was "triggered by the recognition that political feminism had gone into such rapid decline" (126) in the late 1970s, and that if feminism was to become primarily an academic discourse it would lose its political effectiveness and surrender its radicalism to the demands of institutionalization. Moreover, she suggests ...

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