02687oam 2200637I 450 991077767540332120230421045032.01-134-88903-80-203-98052-21-134-88904-61-280-14353-310.4324/9780203980521 (CKB)1000000000456316(EBL)235168(OCoLC)182528301(SSID)ssj0000147830(PQKBManifestationID)11151471(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147830(PQKBWorkID)10018354(PQKB)11511572(MiAaPQ)EBC235168(Au-PeEL)EBL235168(CaPaEBR)ebr2003142(CaONFJC)MIL14353(OCoLC)179100767(EXLCZ)99100000000045631620180331d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnlightened women modernist feminism in a postmodern age /Alison AssiterLondon ;New York :Routledge,1996.1 online resource (176 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-08339-7 0-415-08338-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-160) and index.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; IndexThis 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 distinctionFeminist theoryPostmodernismFeminismFeminist theory.Postmodernism.Feminism.305.42/01Assiter Alison.860277MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777675403321Enlightened women3810981UNINA