Sexing the Self

Arguing for `feminisms with attitude', Probyn ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism.

Informationen zum Autor Elspeth Probyn Klappentext Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for feminisms with attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism, from identity debates' to Foucault's care of the self'. Zusammenfassung Arguing for `feminisms with attitude', Probyn ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: speaking the self and other feminist subjects; 1 A problematic: speaking the self; 2 Problematic selves: the irony of the feminine; 3 Moving selves and stationary others: ethnography's ontological dilemma; 4 Materializing locations: images and selves; 5 Technologizing the self: Foucault and 'le souci du soi'; 6 'Without her I'm nothing: feminisms with attitude; Conclusion: sexing the self; Bibliography; Index;

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Elspeth Probyn

Klappentext

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for feminisms with attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism, from identity debates' to Foucault's care of the self'.

Zusammenfassung
Arguing for `feminisms with attitude', Probyn ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; Introduction: speaking the self and other feminist subjects; 1 A problematic: speaking the self; 2 Problematic selves: the irony of the feminine; 3 Moving selves and stationary others: ethnography's ontological dilemma; 4 Materializing locations: images and selves; 5 Technologizing the self: Foucault and 'le souci du soi'; 6 'Without her I'm nothing: feminisms with attitude; Conclusion: sexing the self; Bibliography; Index;