ISBN:
9780415635202
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (265 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Oppositional Imagination (RLE Feminist Theory) : Feminism, Critique and Political Theory
DDC:
305.4/2
Keywords:
Critical theory
;
Feminism
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Sex role
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Oppositional Imagination draws together elements from Marxism, analytical philosophy, post-structuralism, and post-colonial criticism to analyse the elusive interplay of culture and power. It focuses its attention on cultural domination, opposition and evasion in the realm of sex and gender.Joan Cocks reflects on questions crucial to both political theorists and feminists: the relationship between political theory and practical life; the possibility of bringing together a philosophical and a literary language to comprehend and evoke concrete experience; and the reconciliation of radical po
Description / Table of Contents:
THE OPPOSITIONAL IMAGINATION Feminism, critique, and political theory; Copyright; The Oppositional Imagination Feminism, critique, and political theory; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Things in Two's are Sometimes, but not Always, Dichotomies; Part I: On Theory; 1 Consciousness and Culture; 2 Dominative Power; 3 Criticism and Resistance; 4 Theory's Practical Relation to the World; 5 Theory's Contemplative Relation to the World; Part II: On Masculine/feminine; 6 Point and Counterpoint; 7 Impositions and Evasions; 8 Power, Desire, and the Meaning of the Body
Description / Table of Contents:
9 A Regime without a Master10 Loyalists, Eccentrics, Critics, Traitors, and Rebels; Conclusion: On Practice; Notes; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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