Enlightened women : modernist feminism in a postmodern age / Alison Assiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Assiter, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Postmodernism.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism. Whilst providing a brief and accessible introduction to postmodernist feminist thought, Enlightened Women is also a unique defence of realism and enlightenment philosophy. The first half of the book covers an analysis of some of the most influential postmodernist theorists, such as Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. In the second half Alison Assiter advocates a return to modernism in feminism. She argues, against the current orthodoxy, that there can be a distinction

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Flight from Universals; 2 Irigaray Lacan and Derrida; 3 Realism and Anti Realism; 4 Irigaray and the Self; 5 Feminist Epistemological Communities; 6 Feminism and Morality; 7 Essentialism and Universalism Revisited; 8 A Critique of Constructivist Accounts of Sexuality; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-160) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-88903-8

0-203-98052-2

1-134-88904-6

1-280-14353-3

9780203980521

OCLC:

182528301