ISBN:
9780847692699
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (481 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond Accommodation : Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law
DDC:
305.42/01
Keywords:
Feminist criticism
;
Feminist theory
;
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This new edition of Drucilla Cornell's highly acclaimed book includes a substantial new introduction by the author, which situates the book within current feminist debates. In Beyond Accommodation, Drucilla Cornell offers a highly original vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, arguing that any attempt to affirm woman's value and difference by either emphasizing her maternal role or repudiating the feminine only entraps women, once again, in a container that curtails feminine sexual difference, legi
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the New Edition: Feminist Hope; Introduction Writing the Mamafesta: The Dilemma of Postmodern Feminism; 1 - The Maternal and the Feminine: Social Reality, Fantasy and Ethical Relation; Introduction; West's Phenomenology; The Feminist Dilemma Restated; Julia Kristeva's Exploration of Feminine Difference; The Limits of Object Relations Theory; The Lacanian Account of Masculine Subjectivity and the Basis For Female Solidarity As Loss of the Mother; The Critique of West and Kristeva
Description / Table of Contents:
Hélène Cixous' Fantasy of the MaternalKristeva's Turn From the Mother; Derelection and Its Attempted Solution; 2 - The Feminist Alliance with Deconstruction; The Deconstructive Allegory of Woman; The Subject of Mourning; Feminine Restylization; Justice and the Call of the Other; 3 - Feminism Always Modified: The Affirmation of Feminine Difference Rethought; The Critique of MacKinnon; Sexual Difference Rethought; The Hope of Mimesis; The "Herethics" of Carnality; 4 - Feminine Writing, Metaphor and Myth; Introduction; The Suspicion of Metaphor Restated
Description / Table of Contents:
Metaphor, the Imagination and Utopian PossibilityThe Significance of Myth, and the Feminine as an Imaginative Universal; The Critique of Strategic Essentialism; Irigaray's Ethical Evocation of the Body of Woman; Double Writing and Literary Language; The Critique of Myth; The Appeal to National, Racial and Class Difference; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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