Feminism is, as it were, going through a sort of mid-life crisis, perhaps fighting but also succumbing to the stereotypic conventions associated with such a phase. Putting feminism beside itself means thinking about these questions, thinking about how feminism reflects on its own identity, its own goals, and its own history. A Conference , or with the essays that follow here. Each of these moments are both points of arrival and points of departure, directed toward the question of the future of feminism. And if we are to think in terms of futures, we should also think in terms of feminisms .
Feminism is, in a sense, already divided from itself, beside itself, and marked as plural.
The issue is not so much the future of feminism as it is the futures of feminisms . Today it is not easy to see a common front in or for feminism, and how to negotiate these differences may itself be one of the futures of feminisms. The futures of feminisms that will have been.