ISBN:
9780415635219
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
Serie:
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Paralleltitel:
Print version Coming to Terms (RLE Feminist Theory) : Feminism, Theory, Politics
DDC:
305.4/2/01
Schlagwort(e):
Feminist theory
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Feminist criticism
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Sex role
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Feminist criticism
;
Feminist theory
;
Identity (Philosophical concept)
;
Sex role
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the development of a strong 'identity' politics; on the other, they have been part of the post-structuralist critique of the unified subject - its experience, truth and presence - and of the massive challenge to Western metaphysics and humanism. Along with race and ethnic studies, feminist enquiry has moved beyond the fiction of a unitary feminism to address the differences within the study of difference.The essays in this volume all address feminism's rel
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
COMING TO TERMS Feminism, Theory, Politics; Copyright; COMING TO TERMS Feminism, Theory, Politics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Terms of Reference; Feminist Politics of Interpretation; 1. Changing the Subject; 2. Julia Kristeva: Take Two; 3. Commentary Postponing Politics; Sexual Difference and Indifference; 4. Dreaming Dissymmetry: Barthes, Foucault, and Sexual Difference; 5. Is there a Lesbian in this Text? Derrida, Wittig, and the Politics of the Three Women; 6. Commentary Post-Utopian Difference; Writing History; 7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
8. The Body Politic9. The Problem of Race in Women's History; 10. Commentary Feminism and the Consolidations of "Women" in History; Discourses of Domination; 11. Feminism and Cross-Cultural Inquiry: The Terms of the Discourse in Islam; 12. "It's you, and not me": Domination and "Othering" in Theorizing the "Third World"; 13. Commentary "All That is Inside is not Center": Responses to the Discourses of Domination; Rethinking Political Economy; 14. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s; 15. Commentary Allies and Enemies
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
16. Commentary Cyborgs, Origins, and Subjectivity17. Commentary Cyborgian Socialists?; 18. The Political Economy of Women as Seen by a Literary Critic; 19. Commentary What Is to be Done; Notes;
Anmerkung:
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