The feminine subject / Susan Hekman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hekman, Susan J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2014.

Summary:

"In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define "woman" as an equal human being in our philosophical and political tradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside these parameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation. The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir's work followed that path."--back cover.

Contents:

Simone De Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The Feminine Subject

Difference I: The "French Feminists"

Difference II: Radical Feminism and the Relational Self

Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism

From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality

The Material Subject.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745687849

9780745687841

9780745687834

0745687830

OCLC:

880965139