Feminist imagination : genealogies in feminist theory / Vikki Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Vikki, 1967-

Series:

Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)

Theory, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Race.

Women in politics.

Local Subjects:

Race.

Women in politics.

Physical Description:

viii, 168 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1999.

Summary:

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 compelling rethinking of feminist theory as bound up with attempts to understand oppression outside a focus on 'women'. She affirms feminism as a site and mode of making these connections. What emerges is a profound work brimming with insight that will be required reading for anyone who is seriously interested in feminist theory and, more generally, contemporary social theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

0803979703

0803979711

OCLC:

42621218