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Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sexual Difference written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of feminism and women's rights in Italy. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Luce Irigaray
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826477125
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)
Download or read book An Ethics of Sexual Difference written by Luce Irigaray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. In An Ethics of Sexual Difference Irigaray speaks out against many feminists by pursuing questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought. Examining major philosophers, such as Plato, Spinoza and Levinas, with a series of meditations on the female experience, she advocates new philosophies through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". It is an essential feminist text and a major contribution to our thinking about language.
Author : Lisa Disch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623616
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
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.
Author : Elizabeth Abel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226000763
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Writing and Sexual Difference written by Elizabeth Abel and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss feminist criticism, attitudes toward sexual difference, female identity, and the works of Eliot and Stein
Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300052251
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference written by Deborah L. Rhode and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays cover historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological approaches, ethics and politics, and the policy implications of the real and perceived differences between the sexes
Author : Stephen Frosh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134915918
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Sexual Difference written by Stephen Frosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Difference is a critical exploration of psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference. In particular it explores the way in which masculinity is expressed in theory and practice. Developing from the unsettling impact of these issues on the author's own professional practice, Stephen Frosh examines how the very language and structure of psychoanalysis are loaded with assumptions about gender. Employing both Kleinian and Lacanian theoretical perspectives this book critically examines these approacheds to sexial difference. In addition, it discusses the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and in cases of child secual abuse. Sexual Difference will be of value to all trainees and professionals in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychology and social work, as well as all those with an interest in `masculinity', `femininity' and their effects.
Author : Linell E. Cady
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231162480
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference written by Linell E. Cady and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.
Author : Jessica Benjamin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074307
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Like Subjects, Love Objects written by Jessica Benjamin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, a well-known psychoanalyst and feminist makes a case for what she calls "gender heterodoxy"-a highly original view of the similarities and differences between the sexes-and, in the process, illuminates aspects of love, sexuality, aggression, and pornography.
Author : Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791472224
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book In-Between Bodies written by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.
Author : Alison Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139455192
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference written by Alison Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural, providing a novel interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray. She defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture, showing how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender, through rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is a sustained attempt to connect feminist conceptions of embodiment to German idealist and Romantic accounts of nature. Not merely an interpretation of Irigaray, this book also presents an original feminist perspective on nature and the body. It will encourage debate on the relations between sexual difference, essentialism, and embodiment.
Author : Shoshana Felman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801846205
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book What Does a Woman Want? written by Shoshana Felman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the question ("what does a woman want?") through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, and Honore' de Balzac.
Author : Amy Hollywood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226349462
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Sensible Ecstasy written by Amy Hollywood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism. What is particular to these thinkers, Hollywood reveals, is their attention to forms of mysticism associated with women. They regard mystics such as Angela of Foligno, Hadewijch, and Teresa of Avila not as emotionally excessive or escapist, but as unique in their ability to think outside of the restrictive oppositions that continue to afflict our understanding of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference. Mystics such as these, like their twentieth-century descendants, bridge the gaps between action and contemplation, emotion and reason, and body and soul, offering new ways of thinking about language and the limits of representation.
Author : Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023151526X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Nomadic Subjects written by Rosi Braidotti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.
Author : Antonio Malo
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813232791
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Transcending Gender Ideology written by Antonio Malo and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human sexuality is a very important subject, especially in a cultural context such as ours, in which social and work transformations offer behavioral models that are characterized by a remarkable sexual indeterminacy. In Transcending Gender Ideology, Antonio Malo tries to rethink sexuality with equilibrium and intellectual rigor, using a philosophical approach, since sexuality does not only affect biological aspects or social conditioning, but above all the same essence of the relationship between man and woman. Malo’s reflections begin with the historical evolution of the concept of sexuality: the naturalistic conception, which sees the difference between man and woman as something biological and absolute, and the postmodern conception, which criticizes it by judging human sexuality as a socio-cultural construction or gender. According to Malo, the limitation of the gender approach is to deny the relationship of human sexuality to the body and to the differences between man and woman. In fact, by rejecting these aspects, they end up sustaining a limitless creativity of freedom, which transforms the body into something that is used at will, and relationships as something fluid. Faced with these extremes, Malo proposes a vision of sexuality as a personal condition or sexed condition, received at the time of birth, but which develops, grows and matures through family models, experiences and relationships. Even if based on an original sexual difference, sexed condition covers many other aspects: physical, psychological, social and cultural, as well as behavioral patterns and, above all, the personal integration of sexuality through the gift of oneself in marriage or in celibacy.
Author : Sara Heinämaa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585461902
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference written by Sara Heinämaa and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi_me Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding Beauvoir's argument. In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference, Sara HeinSmaa rediscovers those neglected passages in her quest to follow Beauvoir's line of thinking. HeinSmaa, like some other recent philosophers, finds that Le Duexi_me Sexe is a philosophical inquiry, not the empirical study it is commonly thought to be. Others who view Beauvoir's masterpiece as a work of philosophy argue it is a criticism not only of Sartrean phenomenology, but of phenomenology as a whole. HeinSmaa thinks differently. She finds that Beauvoir's starting point is the Husserlian idea of the living body that she found developed in Merleau-Ponty's PhZnomZnologie de la perception. So when Beavoir wrote Le Duexi_me Sexe, she was writing not as Sartre's pupil, but as a scholar in the tradition of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Author : D. N. Rodowick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928547
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Difficulty of Difference written by D. N. Rodowick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.
Author : Graziella Parati
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639597
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Italian Feminist Theory and Practice written by Graziella Parati and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There follow essays by Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Lucia Re, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, Lea Melandri, and Teresa de Lauretis, in which the authors explore the concept of sexual difference, female authority, relational identity, gendered roles, and homosexual desire in its relation to heterosexual normativity. The volume brings Italian feminist theory squarely into the arena of the most important contemporary feminist debates, revealing both its connections to and disjunctions from more dominant French and North American theories and practices."--Cover.
