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Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom

Author : Linda M. G. Zerilli
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022681405X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom written by Linda M. G. Zerilli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 one rooted in political action and judgment. She revisits the democratic problem of exclusion from participation in common affairs and elaborates a freedom-centered feminism as the political practice of beginning anew, world-building, and judging. In a series of case studies, Zerilli draws on the political thought of Hannah Arendt to articulate a nonsovereign conception of political freedom and to explore a variety of feminist understandings of freedom in the twentieth century, including ones proposed by Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. In so doing, Zerilli hopes to retrieve what Arendt called feminism's lost treasure: the original and radical claim to political freedom.

Edgework

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082687X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Edgework written by Wendy Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential meaning of critique as krisis, in which a tear in the fabric of justice becomes the occasion of a public sifting or thoughtfulness, the development of criteria for judgment, and the inauguration of political renewal or restoration. Each essay probes a contemporary problem--the charge of being unpatriotic for dissenting from U.S. foreign policy, the erosion of liberal democracy by neoliberal political rationality, feminism's loss of a revolutionary horizon--and seeks to grasp the intellectual impasse the problem signals as well as the political incitement it may harbor.

Signifying Woman

Author : Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481772
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Signifying Woman written by Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Political Theory as a Signifying Practice -- 2. "Une Maitresse Imperieuse": Woman in Rousseau's Semiotic Republic. The Maternal Voice. The Field of Female Voice and Vision. Making a Man. The Semiotic Republic -- 3. The "Furies of Hell": Woman in Burke's "French Revolution" Terror and Delight. Burke's Reflections as Self-Reflections. Breaking the Code. The Furies at Versailles -- Postscript: The Maternal Republic -- 4. The "Innocent Magdalen": Woman in Mill's Symbolic Economy. Political Economy of the Body. Political Economy of the Female Body. Angel in the House. Angel out of the House. The Innocent Magdalen -- 5. Resignifying the Woman Question in Political Theory.

Freedom, Feminism, and the State

Author : Wendy McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945999676
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Freedom, Feminism, and the State written by Wendy McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many feminists have believed that government is the natural ally of the women’s movement. However, this book demonstrates that the opposite is true: government has long been a major oppressor of women and their rights. Feminism is not a new political force; its origins can be traced back to the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. Fighting to end slavery, women became conscious of their own legal disabilities. From these anti-statist roots, the women's movement eventually divided over such issues as sex, the family, and war. McElroy's book traces individualist feminism from those early roots until the present day. Her research demonstrates that in vital issues from sex and birth control to business and science, government has been the real obstacle in preventing women from achieving personal freedom and equal rights. This book discusses such controversies as individualism and socialism in the feminist tradition, economic freedom and the role of women, and the contemporary differences between mainstream and individualist feminism. Through McElroy’s work and those of a distinguished group of contributors, this book issues a ringing call for women to recapture their individualist heritage.

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

Author : Lisa Disch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623616
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory written by Lisa Disch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.

Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity

Author : Lori Marso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135525196
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity written by Lori Marso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." This fascinating interdisciplinary study focuses on how feminist thinkers throughout history have long striven to balance politics, intellectual work, and the material conditions of femininity. Taking a close look at this quest for an integrated life in the autobiographical and theoretical writings of well-known feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir, alongside contemporary counterparts, like Azar Nafisi, Audre Lorde, and Ana Castillo, Marso moves beyond questions of who women are and what women want, adding an innovative personal dimension to feminist theory, showing how changing conceptions of femininity manifest themselves within all women’s lives.

A Democratic Theory of Judgment

Author : Linda M.G. Zerilli
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639803X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book A Democratic Theory of Judgment written by Linda M.G. Zerilli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt’s unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criteria of judgment. Engaging a remarkable breadth of thinkers, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Leo Strauss, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Douglass, John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, and many others, Zerilli clears a hopeful path between an untenable universalism and a cultural relativism that forever defers the possibility of judging at all. Zerilli deftly outlines the limitations of existing debates, both those that concern themselves with the impossibility of judging across cultures and those that try to find transcendental, rational values to anchor judgment. Looking at Kant through the lens of Arendt, Zerilli develops the notion of a public conception of truth, and from there she explores relativism, historicism, and universalism as they shape feminist approaches to judgment. Following Arendt even further, Zerilli arrives at a hopeful new pathway—seeing the collapse of philosophical criteria for judgment not as a problem but a way to practice judgment anew as a world-building activity of democratic citizens. The result is an astonishing theoretical argument that travels through—and goes beyond—some of the most important political thought of the modern period.

Identities and Freedom

Author : Allison Weir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199936889
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Identities and Freedom written by Allison Weir and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom.

A Theory of Freedom

Author : S. Welch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137295023
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Freedom written by S. Welch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a liberatory conception of individual freedom that uniquely responds to the problems of social oppression and demands of the interrelatedness insofar as it pertains specifically to the social domain of activity.

Feminist Trouble

Author : Éléonore Lépinard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190077158
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Trouble written by Éléonore Lépinard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Feminist Trouble', Éléonore Lépinard draws on extended fieldwork with numerous women's organizations in France and Quebec. Giving voice to devout women and women of colour, Lépinard dissects hierarchies of privilege in feminist politics, grappling with Islam and Islamic veiling debates to understand how these changes have transformed contemporary feminist movements, intersectional politics, and the feminist collective subject.

At the Heart of Freedom

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822556
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book At the Heart of Freedom written by Drucilla Cornell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. Cornell takes us on a highly original exploration of what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this ideal of freedom seriously--if, in her words, we recognized that "hearts starve as well as bodies." She takes forceful and sometimes surprising stands on such subjects as abortion, prostitution, pornography, same-sex marriage, international human rights, and the rights and obligations of fathers. She also engages with what it means to be free on a theoretical level, drawing on the ideas of such thinkers as Kant, Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Hegel, and Lacan. Cornell begins by discussing what she believes lies at the heart of freedom: the ability for all individuals to pursue happiness in their own way, especially in matters of love and sex. This is only possible, she argues, if we protect the "imaginary domain"--a psychic and moral space in which individuals can explore their own sources of happiness. She writes that equality with men does not offer such protection, in part because men themselves are not fully free. Instead, women must focus on ensuring that individuals face minimal interference from the state and from oppressive cultural norms. They must also respect some controversial individual choices. Cornell argues in favor of permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, for example. She presses for access to abortion and for universal day care. She also justifies lifestyles that have not always been supported by other feminists, ranging from staying at home as a primary caregiver to engaging in prostitution. She argues that men should have similar freedoms--thus returning feminism to its promise that freedom for women would mean freedom for all. Challenging, passionate, and powerfully argued, Cornell's book will have a major impact on the course of feminist thought.

A Theory of Freedom

Author : S. Welch
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137034861
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Freedom written by S. Welch and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a liberatory conception of individual freedom that uniquely responds to the problems of social oppression and demands of the interrelatedness insofar as it pertains specifically to the social domain of activity.

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

Author : Val Plumwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134916698
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature written by Val Plumwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology. Val Plumwood provides a philosophically informed account of the relation of women and nature, and shows how relating male domination to the domination of nature is important and yet remains a dilemma for women.

The Problem with Work

Author : Kathi Weeks
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351129
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Problem with Work written by Kathi Weeks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

The Subject of Liberty

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825369
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Subject of Liberty written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.

At the Heart of Freedom

Author : Professor Drucilla Cornell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781400815500
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book At the Heart of Freedom written by Professor Drucilla Cornell and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornell takes readers on a highly original exploration of what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if they took the ideal of freedom seriously--if, in her words, they learn to recognize that "hearts starve as well as bodies". Challenging, passionate, and powerfully argued, Cornell's book is certain to have a major impact on the course of feminist thought.

A Girl's Story

Author : Annie Ernaux
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609809521
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A Girl's Story written by Annie Ernaux and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958, 18-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s, and then he moves on, leaving her without a “master,” bereft. Now, 50 years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame, humiliation, and betrayal, but also in self-discovery and self-reliance, lies the origin of her writing life.