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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Simone de Beauvoir and the Beginnings of the Feminine Subject; I. Introduction; II. The Ethics of Ambiguity; III. The Second Sex; IV. Interpreting Beauvoir; V. Conclusion; 2: Difference I: The "French Feminists"; I. Introduction; II. Irigaray; III. Kristeva; IV. Cixous; V. Conclusion; 3: Difference II: Radical Feminism and the Relational Self; I. Introduction; II. Radical Feminism; III. The Relational Subject: Object Relations Theory; IV. Gilligan and the Different Voice; V. After the Different Voice |
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VI. Gilligan's Radical Displacement4: Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism; I. Liberalism; A. Criticisms; B. Defenses; C. Transforming liberalism; II. Marxism; 5: From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality; I. Postmodernism1; II. Race and Ethnicity; III. Intersectionality; 6: The Material Subject; I. The New Materialism; II. Body Studies; III. Posthumanism; IV. The Ontology of the Subject; A. Subjects and subjectification; B. Ontology; V. Butler's Material Subject; VI. Defining the Feminine Subject; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define "woman" as an equal human being in our philosophical and political tradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside these parameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation. The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir's work followed that path. Susan Hekman's original and highly engaging ne |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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9780745687858 |
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0745687857 |
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