ISBN:
0-415-90274-6
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978-0-415-90274-8
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0-415-90273-8 /Hb.
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978-0-415-90273-1 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 485 Seiten
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Theorie, politische Postmoderne
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Feminismus
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Frau
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Frau und Politik
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Recht, modernes
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Geschlechterforschung
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Anthropologie, politische
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The use of "theory" in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralism theory within feminism. Against the view that the use of post-structuralism necessarily weakens feminism, 'Feminists Theorize the Political' affirms the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential.In laying the theoretical groundwork for the volume, Butler and Scott posed a number of questions to prominent legal scholars, literary critics, philosophers, political theorists, historians, and cultural theorists. The essays do not settle the questions but generate new and productive directions for them. The volume as a whole valorizes the unsettling power and politics of theory.The essays in 'Feminists Theorize the Political' speak to the questions that emerge from the convergence of feminism and poststructuralism: What happens to feminist critique when traditional foundations--experience, history, universal norms--are called into question? Can feminist theory problematize the notion of the subject without losing its political effectivity? Which version of the subject is to questioned, and how does that questioning open up possibilities for reformulating agency, power, and sites of political resistance? What are the consequences of a specifically feminist reformulation of difference? What are the uses and limits of a poststructuralist critique of binary logic for the theorization of racial and class differences, the position of the subaltern?This anthology represents a diverse array of theoretical work within feminist theory with strong political stakes. Although not all of the authors subscribe to poststructuralism, (and few would concede post-structuralism is a monolithic enterprise), each offers an innovative feminist analysis that is in some way motivated in and by the poststructuralist challenge. 'Feminists Theorize The Political' addresses a range of feminist concerns, including productive freedom, anti-discrimination law, rape, and formulating power in terms of exclusion, difference and hierarchy. (Verlagangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Contesting Grounds -- 1. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of "Postmodernism" / Judith Butler -- 2. "Experience" / Joan W. Scott -- 3. Feminism and George Sand: Lettres à Marcie / Naomi Schor -- 4. French Feminism Revisited: Ethics and Politics / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- 5. Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape / Donna Haraway -- 6. Postmodern Automatons / Rey Chow -- II. Signifying Identity -- 7. A Short History of Some Preoccupations / Denis Riley -- 8. Dealing with Differences / Christina Crosby -- 9. Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson -- 10. The Real Miss Beauchamp: Gender and the Subject of Imitation / Ruth Leys -- 11. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity / B. Honig -- III. Subjects Before the Law -- 12. The Abortion Question and the Death of Man / Mary Poovey -- 13. "Shahbano" / Zakia Pathak and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Gender, Sex, and Equivalent Rights / Drucilla L. Cornell -- 15. Women "Before" the Law: Judicial Stories about Women, Work, and Sex Segregation on the Job / Vicki Schultz -- IV. Critical Practices -- 16. The Issue of Foundations: Scientized Politics, Politicized Science, and Feminist Critical Practice / Kristie McClure -- 17. Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics / Chantal Mouffe -- 18. Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention / Sharon Marcus -- 19. Gender, Power, and Historical Memory: Discourses of Serrano Resistance / Ana María Alonso -- 20. A Pedagogy for Postcolonial Feminists / Zakia Pathak -- V. Postmodern Post-Script -- 21. The End of Innocence / Jane Flax -- 22. Feminism and Postmodernism / Linda Singer -- Index -- Notes on Contributors
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