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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170993403321

Autore

Grace Victoria

Titolo

Baudrillard's challenge : a feminist reading / / Victoria Grace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-67812-6

1-134-67813-4

1-280-32781-2

0-203-13190-8

0-203-16972-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/01

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Ideologies of Meaning and Value; The Fictions of Identity, Power, and Desire; Simulated 'Difference', Simulated 'Politics'; Hyperreal Genders; The Inevitable Seduction; Feminism and the Power of Dissolution; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory.  Drawing on the full range of Baudrillard's writings the author engages in a debate with:* the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti on identity, power and desire* the feminist concern with 'difference' as an emancipatory construct* writings on transgenderism and the performance of gender* feminist concerns