Exclusions in feminist thought : challenging the boundaries of womanhood / edited by Mary Brewer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brewer, Mary F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Physical Description:

vi, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2002.

Contents:

Part I Feminism in the Academy: Making Room for Different Subjects

1 Practicing Difference Differently: Cyborg Consciousness and Political Practice / Julia Balen 11

2 Ivory Towers and Guardians of the Word: Language and Discourse in the Academy / Susan Jackson 28

3 TransForm/ando Women's Studies: Latina Theory Re-Imagines America / Margaret A. Villanueva 46

Part II Representation and Resistance

4 Violating the Seal of Race: The Politics of (Post)Identity and the Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy / Mary Brewer 73

5 (Post)Colonial (Dis)orders: Female Embodiment as Chaos in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Melissa Chinchillo 92

6 "See, I've got my tit out!" Women's Performance Art and Punk Rock / Kathleen Iudicello 118

7 Leaving Las Vegas: Reading the Prostitute as a Voice of Abjection / Doreen Piano 132

Part III Challenging Universalism in Feminist Theory and Practice

8 Theorizing Feminisms: Breast Cancer Narratives and Reconstructed "Women" / Alyssa O'Brien 149

9 Aboriginal Women and the Canadian Women's Movement / Angela Slaughter 167

10 Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism / Rebecca Walsh 182

Part IV Finding a Different Voice

11 Feminism and the Aesthetic / Bella Adams 205

12 Bodily Transactions: Jean Genet in the Feminist Debate / Liz Barry 218

13 "Doing" Judith: Race, Mixed Race and Performativity / Michele Hunter 227

14 Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminist, Lesbian or Transgendered? / Ashley Tauchert 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1902210638

OCLC:

49518998