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Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse

Author : Magali Cornier Michael
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791430156
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse written by Magali Cornier Michael and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction. While much has been written on various aspects of postmodernism and postmodern fiction and of feminism and feminist fiction, very little attention has been given to the postmodern aesthetic strategies that surface in post-World War II feminist fiction. Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse examines ways in which many widely read and acclaimed novels with feminist impulses engage and transform subversive aesthetic strategies usually associated with postmodern fiction to strengthen their feminist political edge. The author discusses many examples of recent feminist-postmodern fiction, and explores in greater depth Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. She shows that feminist-postmodern fiction's emphasis on the material historical situation--the link to activist politics and commitment to enacting concrete changes in the world, and thus the need to reach a large reading public--often results in a blending and transformation of postmodern and realist aesthetic forms. Moreover, feminist fiction uses deconstructive strategies not only to disrupt the status quo but also to create a space for reconstruction, particularly of recreating new forms of female subjectivities and feminist aesthetics.

Feminism After Postmodernism?

Author : Marysia Zalewski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134632908
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Feminism After Postmodernism? written by Marysia Zalewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly original and stimulating, this book provides a detailed overview of postmodern feminist theory and practice. Subjects covered include: *the differences between the feminism of the 1970s and contemporary feminism *liberal, radical, socialist and postmodern feminisms *feminist reactions to the growth in reproductive technologies *how feminism informs debates about the subject, epistemology and political action *feminism into the new millennium

Feminism/Postmodernism

Author : Linda Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135200858
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Feminism/Postmodernism written by Linda Nicholson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism/Postmodernism asks the question, is a postmodern feminist politics possible? This anthology draws on prominent contemporary theorists to attempt a response. The contributors examine the meaning of postmodernism both as a position of method and a diagnosis of the times. They consider issues such as: the nature of personal and social identity today, the relevance of location in constituting theory, the political implications of recent aesthetic trends, and the consequence of changing work and family relations on women's lives.

Feminism and Postmodernism

Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Postmodernism written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the significant agreements and tensions between contemporary feminist and postmodern theories and practices. Having brought enormous changes to conceptions of the body, identity, and the media, postmodernity compels the rethinking of many feminist categories, including female experience, the self, and the notion that "the personal is political." Feminist analysis has been equally important, though not always equally acknowledged, as a force within postmodernism. Feminist writings on subjectivity, master narratives, and the socioeconomic underpinnings of the master narrative of theory itself have been particularly influential. This volume traces the crossings and mutual interrogations of these two traditions into the arenas of cultural production, legal discourse, and philosophical thought. Multidisciplinary and international in their collective focus, the essays range from a study of Madonna as an Italian American woman who is revising the cultural meanings of an ethnic feminism to a unique interview with Mairead Keane, the national head of the Women's Department of the Irish political party Sinn Fein. Turning the prism of postmodern feminism onto such diverse cultural objects as literary and literary critical texts, contemporary film, and music, these essays intervene in debates regarding technology, sexuality, and politics. Challenging modern feminisms to articulate their inescapable relation to postmodern society, this expanded edition of a special issue of boundary 2 also explores ways in which feminism can work as the cutting edge of a global postmodernism. Contributors. Salwa Bakr, Claire Detels, Margaret Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Marjorie Garber, Barbara Harlow, Laura E. Lyons, Anne McClintock, Toril Moi, Linda Nicholson, Mary Poovey, Andrew Ross, David Simpson, Kathyrn Bond Stockton, Jennifer Wicke

Gender and Knowledge

Author : Susan J. Hekman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074566704X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Knowledge written by Susan J. Hekman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore the connection between two perspectives that have had a profound effect upon contemporary thought: post-modernism and feminism. Through bringing together and systematically analysing the relations between these, Hekman is able to make a major intervention into current debates in social theory and philosophy. The critique of Enlightenment knowledge, she argues, is at the core of both post-modernism and feminism. Each also offers a basis for critical reflections about the other. In particular, post-modern philosophy provides a means of criticizing aspects of contemporary feminism and thus contributing to the development of a more sophisticated approach to current feminist issues.

Enlightened Women

Author : Alison Assiter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134889046
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Enlightened Women written by Alison Assiter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the opening chapters of her book, Assiter provides a lucid exposition of contemporary postmodern feminism. She analyses the writings of some of its most influential theorists, and places them in the wider context of postmodern and post-structuralist theory as developed, for example, by Lyotard and Derrida. Assiter then develops a citique of the antirealist stance that unites postmodern thinkers and makes a powerful argument for epistemological realism." "In later chapters, Assiter goes on to outline a 'modernist' feminist epistemology based on communities rather than the individual; she asserts that a version of the humanist subject based on bodily identity can be defended against postmodernist deconstructions; and she demonstrates that we can indeed make claims about women that are universally true. Enlightened Women argues for retaining the distinction between sex and gender and concludes with an alternative reading of the theory of sexuality." "Enlightened Women provides a clear and concise overview of postmodernism and French feminist thought; at the same time it argues, against received opinion, for a partial return to modernist values."--Jacket.

Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development

Author : Marianne H Marchand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113484655X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development written by Marianne H Marchand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development. Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this power struggle. It examines new issues, "voices", and dilemmas in development theory and practice. Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as women of colour, this collection questions established development practices and suggests the need to incorporate issues such as identity, representation, indigenous knowledge, and political action. Feminism/Postmodernism/Development acknowledges the importance of Third World and minority women's experiences. It acknowledges their importance for development and suggests that postmodernist insights can enhance their quest for empowerment.

Thinking Fragments

Author : Jane Flax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520329406
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Fragments written by Jane Flax and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Women's Liberation and the Sublime

Author : Bonnie Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195187466
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Women's Liberation and the Sublime written by Bonnie Mann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womens Liberation and the Sublime is a passionate report on the state of feminist thinking and practice after the linguistic turn. A critical assessment of masculinist notions of the sublime in modern and postmodern accounts grounds the author's positive and constructive recuperation of sublime experience in a feminist voice.

Postmodern Feminist Writers

Author : W. S. Kottiswari
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176258210
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Feminist Writers written by W. S. Kottiswari and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ludic Feminism and After

Author : Teresa L. Ebert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065769
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Ludic Feminism and After written by Teresa L. Ebert and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and controversial challenge to postmodern academic feminism

The Play of Reason

Author : Linda Nicholson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729225
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Play of Reason written by Linda Nicholson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time the highly influential essays, many of them classics, of one of the most prominent scholars in social philosophy and feminist theory. These essays provide a compelling view of many of the major trends in social theory over the past fifteen years—trends that Linda Nicholson herself helped to shape. The Play of Reason examines the legacies of modernity in contemporary political, social, and feminist thought and the unraveling of these legacies in postmodern times. Linda Nicholson first focuses on the tension in modern social theory between attempts to recognize change and diversity and struggles to capture such change in overarching frameworks of meaning and value. She illuminates the consequences of these conflicting tendencies in relation to Marxism, feminist theory, and classical liberal accounts of the family and the state. Nicholson then asks how theory and the resolution of difference are possible after such overarching frameworks are abandoned. She shows how a pragmatic understanding of theory answers widespread fears about relativism. The Play of Reason is a powerful demonstration of a politically engaged social theory.

Doing Time

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727077
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Doing Time written by Rita Felski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern and postmodern as antithetical ideas. Rather, we need a historical perspective attentive to the leaky boundaries between different times as well as the many cultural and political differences within a single time.

Women's Liberation and the Sublime

Author : Marilyn Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019804058X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Women's Liberation and the Sublime written by Marilyn Friedman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women's citizenship in various parts of the world.

Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404131
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics written by Henry A. Giroux and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces central assumptions that govern postmodern and feminist theory, offering educators a language to create new ways of conceiving pedagogy and its relationship to social, cultural, and intellectual life. It challenges some of the major categories and practices that have dominated educational theory and practice in the United States and in other countries since the beginning of the twentieth century. Rejecting the apolitical nature of some postmodern discourses and the separatism characteristic of some versions of cultural feminism, the contributors take a political stand rooted in concern with cultural and social justice. In so doing, these essays represent a linguistic shift regarding how we think about ethics, foundationalism, difference, and culture. The selections present a concern with developing a language that is critical of master narratives, racism, sexism, and those technologies of power in schools that subjugate, infantilize, and oppress students. The authors also develop a language of possibility that focuses on analyzing how power can be linked productively to knowledge, how teachers can construct classroom social relations based on notions of equity and justice, how critical pedagogy can contribute to an identity politics that is grounded in democratic relations, and how teachers can develop analyses that enable students to become self-reflective actors as they transform themselves and the conditions of their social existence.

Feminine Fictions

Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415521815
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Feminine Fictions written by Patricia Waugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America, Patricia Waugh attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art. The second part of the book analyses the work of six 'traditional' and six 'experimental' writers, challenging the restrictive definitions of 'realist', 'modernist', 'postmodernist' in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one. Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist 'precursor' rather than a 'high' modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath, Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and Piercy.

Sceptical History

Author : Hélène Bowen Raddeker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134296568
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Sceptical History written by Hélène Bowen Raddeker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original work in history and theory, this survey considers major themes including identity, class and sexual difference, and weaves them into debates on the nature and point of history. Sceptical History arrives at new ways of doing history that consider non-Western history and feminist approaches. Using a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the study draws extensively on feminist scholarship, both feminist history and postcolonial feminism.