Continental Feminism Reader
Continental Feminism Reader

Author: Ann J. Cahill

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780742523098

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In an era of backlash and supposed stagnation, feminist philosophers are still providing fresh and challenging perspectives--you just have to know where to look. Continental feminist theory continues to address pressing questions of equality and difference, identity and subjectivity. Modern thinkers like Judith Butler, Kelly Oliver, and Drucilla Cornell give strikingly new perspectives on sex, gender, sexual politics, and the various social reasons for gender inequality. Yet their theories are not always well received. Continental Feminism Reader responds to the marginalization of these thinkers and others like them. In this volume, 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.

Continental Feminism Reader
Continental Feminism Reader

Author: Ann J. Cahill

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0585466726

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In an era of backlash and supposed stagnation, feminist philosophers are still providing fresh and challenging perspectives—you just have to know where to look. Continental feminist theory continues to address pressing questions of equality and difference, identity and subjectivity. Modern thinkers like Judith Butler, Kelly Oliver, and Drucilla Cornell give strikingly new perspectives on sex, gender, sexual politics, and the various social reasons for gender inequality. Yet their theories are not always well received. Continental Feminism Reader responds to the marginalization of these thinkers and others like them. In this volume, 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.

Convergences
Convergences

Author: Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1438432674

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Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

The Continental Ethics Reader
The Continental Ethics Reader

Author: Matthew Calarco

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780415943307

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Continental Philosophy in Feminist Perspective
Continental Philosophy in Feminist Perspective

Author: Herta Nagl-Docekal

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780271043579

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"We translate what American women write, they never translate our texts," wrote Helene Cixous almost two decades ago. Her complaint about the unavailability of French feminist writing in English has long since been rectified, but the situation for feminist writing by German-speaking philosophers remains today what it was then. This pioneering collection takes a giant step forward to overcoming this handicap, revealing the full richness and variety of feminist critique ongoing in this linguistic community. The essays offer fresh readings of thinkers from the Enlightenment to the present, including those often discussed by feminists everywhere--such as Freud, Habermas, Hegel, Kant, and Rousseau--as well as some less subjected to feminist critique such as Benjamin and Weininger. In their Introduction the editors provide the context for understanding both how these essays fit into the larger picture of developing feminist theory and what makes their contribution in some ways distinctive.

Rethinking Rape
Rethinking Rape

Author: Ann J. Cahill

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780801487187

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Rethinking Rape applies current feminist theory to an urgent political and ethical issue to counter definitions of rape as mere assault Book jacket.

Language and Liberation
Language and Liberation

Author: Christina Hendricks

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1438406479

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Presenting new and important scholarship in feminist language theory, this book addresses issues within diverse traditions, bringing together feminist positions, strategies, and styles in an original way. Gathering together authors with different backgrounds and methods, Language and Liberation puts this diverse scholarship into dialogue. The questions and concerns reflected in these essays are presented within the context of their historical background, provided by the editors' comprehensive Introduction. These questions include: Is there a distinction between "female" and "male" language? What is the relationship of feminine/feminist identity to language? What is the value of metaphor for feminist theory and practice?

French Feminism Reader
French Feminism Reader

Author: Kelly Oliver

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-05-10

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0742580814

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French Feminism Reader is a collection of essays representing the authors and issues from French theory most influential in the American context. The book is designed for use in courses, and it includes illuminating introductions to the work of each author. These introductions include biographical information, influences and intellectual context, major themes in the author's work as a whole, and specific introductions to the selections in this volume. The contributors represent the two trends in French theory that have proven most useful to American feminists: social theory and psychoanalytic theory. Both of these trends move away from any traditional discussions of nature toward discussions of socially constructed notions of sex, sexuality and gender roles. While feminists interested in social theory focus on the ways in which social institutions shape these notions, feminists interested in psychoanalytic theory focus on cultural representations of sex, sexuality and gender roles, and the ways that they affect the psyche. This collection includes selections by Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy, Colette Guilluamin, Monique Wittig, Michele Le Doeuff, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, and Helene Cixous.

Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity

Author: Margaret A. McLaren

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0791487938

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Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his seemingly contradictory position on subjectivity and his resistance to using identity as a political category, McLaren argues that Foucault employs a conception of embodied subjectivity that is well-suited for feminism. She applies Foucault's notion of practices of the self to contemporary feminist practices, such as consciousness-raising and autobiography, and concludes that the connection between self-transformation and social transformation that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist theory and politics.