Continental Feminism Reader

Name: Continental Feminism Reader
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ISBN: 9780742523098

ISBN-10: 0742523098

ISBN-13: 9780742523098

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ann J. Cahill, Jennifer Hansen, Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Teresa Brennan

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Ann J. Cahill and Jennifer Hansen collect the most groundbreaking recent work in Continental feminist theory, introducing and explaining pieces that are often mystifying to those outside the field and outside academia. With these essays, Continental Feminism Reader begins the process of reanimating feminist politics through the critical tools of its contributors.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/5/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.82" wide x 8.96" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.990

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Judith Butler


Introduction: The Politics of Sexual Identity



Gender Trouble



"'Woman' As the Subject of Feminism"


"Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions"


"Conclusion: From Parody to Politics"


Rosi Braidotti


Introduction: Nomadic Subjectivity



Sexual Difference As a Nomadic Political Project



Teresa Brennan


Introduction: Detours and Delays



Social Pressure



Essence against Identity



Kelly Oliver


Introduction: Abjected Maternal Love and Paternal Pathology



The Morality of American Manhood, Responsibility, and Virility



What Is Transformative about the Performative? From Repetition to Working-Through



Drucilla Cornell


Introduction: Equivalent Rights



Living Together: Psychic Space and the Demand for Sexual Equality



Teresa de Lauretis


Introduction: Women Writing Passionate Fictions of Woman



Through the Looking Glass: Women, Cinema, and Language



Moira Gatens


Introduction: Imaginary Bodies and Real Difference



Power, Bodies, and Difference



Toward a Feminist Philosophy of the Body



Elizabeth Grosz


Introduction: The Promise of the Unruly Body



Sexed Bodies



Index


About the Editors