Feminists Theorize the Political

A collection of work by leading feminist scholars, engaging with the question of the political status of poststructuralism within feminism, and affirming the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential.

Autorentext
Judith Butler, Joan W. Scott

Inhalt
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;