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Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom

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ISBN-10: 0226981347

ISBN-13: 9780226981345

Edition: 2005

Authors: Linda M. G. Zerilli

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In contemporary feminist theory, the problem of feminine subjectivity persistently appears and reappears as the site that grounds all discussion of feminism. In Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, Linda M. G. Zerilli argues that the persistence of this subject-centered frame severely limits feminists' capacity to think imaginatively about the central problem of feminist theory and practice: a politics concerned with freedom. Offering both a discussion of feminism in its postmodern context and a critique of contemporary theory, Zerilli here challenges feminists to move away from a theory-based approach, which focuses on securing or contesting "women" as an analytic category of feminism, to…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Feminism and Freedom Both Begin with the Letter F
Freedom as a Social Question
Freedom as a Subject Question
Freedom as a World Question
Feminism's "Lost Treasure"
Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and the Limits of Epistemology
Theory-The Craving for Generality?
A Wittgensteinian Reading of the Feminist Foundations Debate
Doing Gender, Following a Rule
Radical Imagination and Figures of the Newly Thinkable
Toward a Freedom-Centered Feminist Theory
Feminists Are Beginners: Monique Wittig's Les guerilleres and the "Problem of the New"
The Limits of Doubt
Language as a "War Machine"
Renversement
No-More and Not-Yet
Elles-A Fantastic Universal
Feminists Make Promises: The Milan Collective's Sexual Difference and the Project of World-Building
Tearing Up the Social Contract
The Desire for Reparation
The Problem with Equality
Discovering Disparity
A Political Practice of Sexual Difference
Refiguring Rights
Feminists Make Judgments: Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy and the Affirmation of Freedom
Judgment and the "Problem of the New"
The Old Problem of Objectivity
Judging without a Concept
One Concept of Validity
A Political Concept of Validity
From World-Disclosure ot World-Opening
"Being and thinking in my own identity where actually I am not"
Imagination and Freedom
Sensus Communis and the Practice of Freedom
Conclusion: Reframing the Freedom Question in Feminism
Feminism's Paradox of Founding
What a Political Claim Is
Feminism Is a World-Building Practice
Recovering Feminism's "Lost Treasure"
Notes