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Autore: | Assiter Alison |
Titolo: | Enlightened women : modernist feminism in a postmodern age / / Alison Assiter |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.42/01 |
Soggetto topico: | Feminist theory |
Postmodernism | |
Feminism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-160) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 distinction |
Titolo autorizzato: | Enlightened women |
ISBN: | 1-134-88903-8 |
0-203-98052-2 | |
1-134-88904-6 | |
1-280-14353-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777675403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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