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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810248003321

Autore

Lykke Nina

Titolo

Feminist studies : a guide to intersectional theory, methodology and writing / / by Nina Lykke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-97899-2

1-282-56966-X

9786612569661

0-203-85277-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ; ; 1

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Women's studies

Feminist theory - Study and teaching (Higher)

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Editors' Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: What Is Feminist Studies?; 1 A Guide's Introduction; 2 A Postdisciplinary Discipline; 3 Undoing Proper Research Objects; Part II: To Theorize Intersectional Gender/Sex; 4 Intersectional Gender/Sex: A Conflictual and Power-Laden Issue; 5 Theorizing Intersectionalities: Genealogies and Blind Spots; 6 Genealogies of Doing; 7 Making Corporealities Matter: Intersections of Gender and Sex Revisited; Part III: To Re-Tool the Thinking Technologies; 8 Rethinking Epistemologies

9 Methodologies, Methods and Ethics10 Shifting Boundaries Between Academic and Creative Writing Practices; Part IV: To Use a Feminist Hermeneutics; 11 Doing and Undoing the God-Trick: Analytical Examples; Notes; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion based on race, class, and sexuality. Lykke confronts and contrasts classical stances in feminist



epistemology with poststructuralist and postconstructionist feminisms, and also brings bodily materiality into dialogue with theories of the performativity of gender and sex. This thorough a