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

• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/2/01; 305.4201
• Soggetto topico: Feminist theory; Feminist criticism; Identity (Philosophical concept); Sex role
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WeedElizabeth <1940->
• Note generali: First published in 1989 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Coming to terms
• ISBN: 0-203-09391-7; 1-283-86122-4; 1-136-20380-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463128703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Feminist theory.