| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) |
| Contents |
"Beyond" gender : the new geography of identity and the future of feminist criticism -- "Beyond" white and other : narratives of race in feminist discourse -- "Beyond" difference : migratory feminism in the borderlands -- Geopolitical literacy : internationalizing feminism at "home" : the case of Virginia Woolf -- Telling contacts : intercultural encounters and narrative poetics in the borderlands between literary studies and anthropology -- "Routes/roots" : boundaries, borderlands, and geopolitical narratives of identity -- Negotiating the transatlantic divide : feminism after poststructuralism -- Making history : reflections on feminism, narrative, and desire -- Craving stories : narrative and lyric in feminist theory and poetic practice |
| Summary |
In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Women's studies.
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Feminism and education.
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Multiculturalism.
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Feminist geography.
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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women's studies.
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multiculturalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Feminism and education
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Feminist criticism
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Feminist geography
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Feminist theory
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Multiculturalism
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Women's studies
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Feminismus
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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Feminisme.
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Multiculturele samenlevingen.
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Internationalisatie.
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Poststructuralisme.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400822577 |
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1400822572 |
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1400811678 |
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9781400811670 |
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