Coming to terms : feminism, theory, politics / edited by Elizabeth Weed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weed, Elizabeth, 1940- editor.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 3.

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Feminist criticism.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 291 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the development of a strong 'identity' politics; on the other, they have been part of the post-structuralist critique of the unified subject - its experience, truth and presence - and of the massive challenge to Western metaphysics and humanism. Along with race and ethnic studies, feminist enquiry has moved beyond the fiction of a unitary feminism to address the differences within the study of difference.The essays in this volume all address femi

Contents:

COMING TO TERMS Feminism, Theory, Politics; Copyright; COMING TO TERMS Feminism, Theory, Politics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Terms of Reference; Feminist Politics of Interpretation; 1. Changing the Subject; 2. Julia Kristeva: Take Two; 3. Commentary Postponing Politics; Sexual Difference and Indifference; 4. Dreaming Dissymmetry: Barthes, Foucault, and Sexual Difference; 5. Is there a Lesbian in this Text? Derrida, Wittig, and the Politics of the Three Women; 6. Commentary Post-Utopian Difference; Writing History; 7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

8. The Body Politic9. The Problem of Race in Women's History; 10. Commentary Feminism and the Consolidations of ""Women"" in History; Discourses of Domination; 11. Feminism and Cross-Cultural Inquiry: The Terms of the Discourse in Islam; 12. ""It's you, and not me"": Domination and ""Othering"" in Theorizing the ""Third World""; 13. Commentary ""All That is Inside is not Center"": Responses to the Discourses of Domination; Rethinking Political Economy; 14. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s; 15. Commentary Allies and Enemies

16. Commentary Cyborgs, Origins, and Subjectivity17. Commentary Cyborgian Socialists?; 18. The Political Economy of Women as Seen by a Literary Critic; 19. Commentary What Is to be Done; Notes

Notes:

First published in 1989 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9780203093917

0203093917

9781283861229

1283861224

9781136203800

113620380X

OCLC:

823730443