Hekman The Feminine Subject

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8787-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten, E-Book

In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be awoman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radicaltransformation of the meaning of "woman" that definedthe direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoirdiscovered is that it is impossible to define "woman"as an equal human being in our philosophical and politicaltradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside theseparameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation.The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir'swork followed that path.
Susan Hekman's original and highly engaging new book tracesthe evolution of "woman" from Beauvoir to the present.In a comprehensive synthesis of a number of feminist theorists shecovers French feminist thinkers Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous aswell as theorists such as Carol Gilligan, Carole Pateman and JudithButler. The book examines the relational self, feminist liberalismand Marxism, as well as feminist theories of race and ethnicity,radical feminism, postmodern feminism and material feminism. Hekmanargues that the effort to redefine "woman" in thecourse of feminist theory is a cumulative process in which eachapproach builds on that which has gone before. Although they haveapproached "woman" from different perspectives,feminist theorists has moved beyond the negative definition of ourtradition to a new concept that continues to evolve.
The Feminine Subject is a remarkably succinct yet wide-ranginganalysis which will appeal to all feminist scholars and students aswell as anyone interested in the changing nature of feminism sincethe 1950s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hekman, Susan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Simone De Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The FeminineSubject
Chapter 2: Difference I: The "French Feminists"
Chapter 3: Difference Ii: Radical Feminism and the RelationalSelf
Chapter 4: Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism
Chapter 5: From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race,Ethnicity, and Intersectionality
Chapter 6: The Material Subject
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Hekman is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program at the
University of Texas at Arlington.