ISBN:
9780203977750
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
Series Statement:
Transformations
Parallel Title:
Print version Ahmed, Sara Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Feminism -- Congresses
;
Feminist theory -- Congresses
;
Women's studies -- Congresses
Abstract:
A thorough reassessment of feminism's place in contemporary life. With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, it takes feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities
Abstract:
Cover -- Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Introduction: Thinking through feminism -- Part I The rhetorical affects of feminism -- Introduction -- 1 The subject of true feeling -- 2 Shaming theory, thinking dis-connections -- 3 Owned suffering: Thinking the feminist political imagination with Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Wright -- 4 Unifying forces: Rhetorical reflections on a pro-choice image -- 5 Luce Irigaray's sexuate rights and the politics of performativity -- Part II Boundaries and connections -- Introduction -- 6 Claiming transformation: Travel notes with pictures -- 7 From politics of identity to politics of complexity: A possible research agenda for feminist politics/movements across time and space -- 8 Operatic karaoke and the pitfalls of identity politics: A translated performance -- 9 Crossing boundaries: Rethinking/teaching identity -- Part III Knowledges and disciplines -- Introduction -- 10 Forays of a philosophical feminist: Sexual difference, genealogy, teleology -- 11 Philosophy and the feminist imagination -- 12 Still telling it like it is?: Problems of feminist truth claims -- 13 Techno-triumphalism,techno-tourism, American dreams and feminism -- 14 Nuclear families: Women's narratives of the making of the atomic bomb -- Part IV Subject matters -- Introduction -- 15 Objects of innovation: Post-occupational reflexivity and re-traditionalisations of gender -- 16 Consumerism and 'compulsory individuality': Women, will and potential -- 17 Reframing pregnant embodiment -- 18 Monsters, marvels and metaphysics: Beyond the powers of horror -- 19 Belonging and unbelonging: Transformations of memory in the photographs of Virginia Woolf -- Index
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