Feminists Theorize the Political

ISBN-13: 9780415902748 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 504 str.

Judith P. Butler; Joan W. Scott

Opis

The use of theory in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralist theory within feminism. Against the view that poststructuralism necessarily weakens feminism, this book affirms the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. The essays in Feminists Theorize the Political speak to the questions that emerge from the convergence of feminism and poststructuralism: What happens to feminist critique when traditional grounds and foundations - experience, history, universal norms - are called into question? Can feminist theory problematize the notion of the subject without losing its political effectivity? Which version of the subject is to be questioned, and how does that questioning open up possibilities for reformulating agency, power, and sites of political resistance? What are the consequences of a specifically feminist reformulation of difference? What are the uses and limits of a poststructuralist critique of binary logic for the theorization of racial and class differences,

Spis treści

Part 1 Contesting Grounds; Chapter 1 Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism”, Judith Butler; Chapter 2 “Experience”, Joan W. Scott; Chapter 3 Feminism and George Sand: Lettres à Marcie, Naomi Schor; Chapter 4 French Feminism Revisited: Ethics and Politics, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Chapter 5 Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape, Donna Haraway; Chapter 6 Postmodern Automatons, Rey Chow; Part 2 Signifying Identity; Chapter 7 A Short History of Some Preoccupations, Denise Riley; Chapter 8 Dealing with Differences, Christina Crosby; Chapter 9 Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson; Chapter 10 The Real Miss Beauchamp: Gender and the Subject of Imitation, Ruth Leys; Chapter 11 Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity, B. Honig; Part 3 Subjects Before the Law; Chapter 12 The Abortion Question and the Death of Man, Mary Poovey; Chapter 13 “Shahbano”, Zakia Pathak, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Chapter 14 Gender, Sex, and Equivalent Rights, Drucilla L. Cornell; Chapter 15 Women “Before” the Law: Judicial Stories about Women, Work, and Sex Segregation on the Job, Vicki Schultz; Part 4 Critical Practices; Chapter 16 The Issue of Foundations: Scientized Politics, Politicized Science, and Feminist Critical Practice, Kirstie McClure; Chapter 17 Feminism, Citizenship and Radical Democratic Politics, Chantal Mouffe; Chapter 18 Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention, Sharon Marcus; Chapter 19 Gender, Power, and Historical Memory: Discourses of Serrano Resistance, Ana María Alonso; Chapter 20 A Pedagogy for Postcolonial Feminists, Zakia Pathak; Part 5 Postmodern Post-Script; Chapter 21 The End of Innocence, Jane Flax; Chapter 22 Feminism and Postmodernism, Linda Singer;

O autorze

Judith Butler, Joan W. Scott