ISBN:
9780415220668
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (362 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Thinking Through Feminism : Thinking Through Feminism
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A thorough reassessment of feminism's place in contemporary life. With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, it takes feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editors ' preface; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; Part I The rhetorical affects of feminism; Introduction; 1 The subject of true feeling; 2 Shaming theory, thinking dis-connections; 3 Owned suffering; 4 Unifying forces; 5 Luce Irigaray's sexuate rights and the politics of performativity; Part II Boundaries and connections; Introduction; 6 Claiming transformation; 7 From politics of identity to politics of complexity; 8 Operatic karaoke and the pitfalls of identity politics; 9 Crossing boundaries
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Knowledges and disciplinesIntroduction; 10 Forays of a philosophical feminist; 11 Philosophy and the feminist imagination; 12 Still telling it like it is?; 13 Techno-triumphalism, techno-tourism, American dreams and feminism; 14 Nuclear families; Part IV Subject matters; 15 Objects of innovation; 16 Consumerism and 'compulsory individuality'; 17 Reframing pregnant embodiment; 18 Monsters, marvels and metaphysics; 19 Belonging and unbelonging; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction: Thinking through feminism; Part I The rhetorical affects of feminism; Introduction; 1 The subject of true feeling; 2 Shaming theory, thinking dis-connections; 3 Owned suffering: Thinking the feminist political imagination with Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Wright; 4 Unifying forces: Rhetorical reflections on a pro-choice image; 5 Luce Irigaray's sexuate rights and the politics of performativity
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Boundaries and connectionsIntroduction; 6 Claiming transformation: Travel notes with pictures; 7 From politics of identity to politics of complexity: A possible research agenda for feminist politics/movements across time and space; 8 Operatic karaoke and the pitfalls of identity politics: A translated performance; 9 Crossing boundaries: Rethinking/teaching identity; Part III Knowledges and disciplines; Introduction; 10 Forays of a philosophical feminist: Sexual difference, genealogy, teleology; 11 Philosophy and the feminist imagination
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Still telling it like it is?: Problems of feminist truth claims13 Techno-triumphalism,techno-tourism, American dreams and feminism; 14 Nuclear families: Women's narratives of the making of the atomic bomb; Part IV Subject matters; Introduction; 15 Objects of innovation: Post-occupational reflexivity and re-traditionalisations of gender; 16 Consumerism and 'compulsory individuality': Women, will and potential; 17 Reframing pregnant embodiment; 18 Monsters, marvels and metaphysics: Beyond the powers of horror
Description / Table of Contents:
19 Belonging and unbelonging: Transformations of memory in the photographs of Virginia WoolfIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
