Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 168 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0803979703
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0803979711
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9780803979703
Series Statement:
Theory, culture & society
Content:
Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the `race' trials of the twentieth century. The book looks at: the 'directionlessness' of contemporary feminist thought; the question of essentialism and embodiment; the racial tensions in the work of Simone de Beauvoir; the totalitarian character in Hannah Arendt; the 'mimetic Jew' and the concept of mimesis in the work of Judith Butler. Vikki Bell provides a compe
Note:
Includes bibliographic references and index
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 - AFFIRMING FEMINISM; 2 - PHANTASTIC COMMUNITIES AND DANGEROUS THINKING: FEMINIST POLITICAL IMAGINATION; 3 - SUFFERING: THINKING POLITICS WITH SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND RICHARD WRIGHT; 4 - APPEARANCE: THINKING DIFFERENCE IN THE POLITICAL REALM WITH HANNAH ARENDT; 5 - MIMESIS AS CULTURAL SURVIVAL: JUDITH BUTLER AND ANTI-SEMITISM; 6 - ESSENTIALISM AND EMBODIMENT: THE POLITICS BEHIND THE PARANOIA; 7 - CONCLUSION: TRAUMA AND TEMPORALITY IN GENEALOGICAL FEMINIST CRITIQUE; REFERENCES; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803979710
Additional Edition:
Print version Feminist Imagination : Genealogies in Feminist Theory
Language:
English
