Feminist Politics

Identity, Difference, and Agency
Herausgeber: Orr, Deborah; Kahl, Eileen; Taylor, Dianna

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology of articles provides contemporary international feminist perspectives on issues of identity, agency, and difference as they pertain to both feminist politics in particular, and contemporary western politics more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780742547780
• ISBN-10: 0742547787
• Artikelnr.: 22562542

Autorenporträt

Deborah Orr is a philosopher who teaches in the Division of Humanities at York University in Toronto. Dianna Taylor is assistant professor of philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. Eileen Kahl works in the Philosophy and Women's Studies departments at the University of South Florida. Kathleen Earle is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park. Linda Lopez McAlister is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of South Florida. Christa Rainwater has worked as a teaching assistant at the University of San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Reconceptualizing Challenges to Entrenched Political Divides
Chapter 2 Introduction to Identities and Differences
Chapter 3 The Mind/Body Paradigm Crisis And A New Paradigm for Feminism
Chapter 4 Who's Afraid of Nature? The Rise and Fall of "Denaturalization"
in Contemporary Feminist Thought
Chapter 5 "L'intersectionalité": Feminisms in a Divided World
Chapter 6 Feminism Under Fire
Chapter 7 When Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Third Wave Cultural Engagement As
Political Action
Chapter 8 My Once and Future Self
Part 9 Putting Identity Back into Politics
Chapter 10 Keeping Authenticity in Play - or Being Naughty to be Good
Chapter 11 Locating Traitorous Identities: De-Scribing Whiteness
Chapter 12 Mobility-Unlimitation-Acceleration: General Views and Feminist
Interventions
Chapter 13 Place, Movement, and Identity: Rethinking Empowerment
Chapter 14 Theorizing Identities as Mutually Constitutive: A Critical
Reading of Spelman, Aristotle, and Jewish Law
Chapter 15 Feminist Politics and Feminist Pluralism: Can We Do Feminist
Political Theory Without Theories of Gender?
Chapter 16 Arendt, Foucault, and Feminist Politics: A Critical Reappraisal