Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism

by Lury; Celia

• ISBN13: 9780415220668
• ISBN10: 0415220661
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Transformationsis a thorough assessment of feminism's place in contemporary life. With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, this book traces both of the shifts in thinking that have allowed feminism to arrive at its present point and the way that feminist agendas have progressed in line with wider social developments. The editors engage in current debates as diverse as globalization, technoscience, embodiment and performativity, taking feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities.

Author Biography

Sara Ahmed is Co-Director of the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University Jane Kilby is Lecturer in Sociology at Salford University Celia Lury is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London Maureen McNeil is Reader in the Institute for Women's Studies, Lancaster University Beverley Skeggs is Chair of Sociology at Manchester University. Lisa Adkins is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Vikki Bell is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Lauren Berlant is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. Anne M. Cronin is a lecturer in Culture, Media and Communication and Sociology at Lancaster University Penelope Deutscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Australian National University. Jean Grimshaw taught Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, until 1999. Sneja Gunew is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Joanna Hodge is Professor in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University Janet Holland is a Professor in Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Centre at South Bank University, London. Maggie Humm is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of East London Gail Ching-Liang Low has taught at the University of Southampton, the University of East Anglia, the Open University, Staffordshire University and the University of Dundee. Currently she teaches postcolonial, contemporary British and American literature and film at the University of Dundee. She is the author of White Skins/Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism (Routledge 1996) and is currently working on pedagogy and canon formation in the institutional transformation of 'Commonwealth' to 'Postcolonial' in Britain. Elspeth Probyn is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. Caroline Ramazanoglu is a former Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College University of London. Karyn Sandlos is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Education at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Margrit Shildrick is Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University, and holds honorary research fellowships at the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University Ngai-Ling Sum is the Simon Research Fellow at the International Centre for Labour Studies, University of Manchester. Imogen Tyler is a Lecturer in the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University. Carol Wolkowitz is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Series editors' preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Permissions	xix
Introduction: thinking through feminism	1	(24)
Sara Ahmed
Jane Kilby
Celia Lury
Maureen Mcneil
Beverley Skeggs
PART I The rhetorical affects of feminism	25	(84)
Introduction	27	(6)
Beverley Skeggs
The subject of true feeling: pain, privacy and politics	33	(15)
Lauren Berlant
Shaming theory, thinking dis-connections: feminism and reconciliation	48	(13)
Elspeth Probyn
Owned suffering: thinking the feminist political imagination with Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Wright	61	(16)
Vikki Bell
Unifying forces: rhetorical reflections on a pro-choice image	77	(15)
Karyn Sandlos
Luce Irigaray's sexuate rights and the politics of performativity	92	(17)
Penelope Deutscher
PART II Boundaries and connections	109	(64)
Introduction	111	(8)
Sara Ahmed
Claiming transformation: travel notes with pictures	119	(12)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
From politics of identity to politics of complexity: a possible research agenda for feminist politics/movements across time and space	131	(14)
Ngai-Ling Sum
Operatic karaoke and the pitfalls of identity politics: a translated performance	145	(14)
Sneja Gunew
Crossing boundaries: rethinking/teaching identity	159	(14)
Gail Ching-Liang Low
PART III Knowledges and disciplines	173	(78)
Introduction	175	(7)
Maureen Mcneil
Forays of a philosophical feminist: sexual difference, genealogy, teleology	182	(14)
Joanna Hodge
Philosophy and the feminist imagination	196	(11)
Jean Grimshaw
Still telling it like it is?: problems of feminist truth claims	207	(14)
Caroline Ramazanoglu
Janet Holland
Techno-triumphalism, techno-tourism, American dreams and feminism	221	(14)
Maureen Mcneil
Nuclear families: women's narratives of the making of the atomic bomb	235	(16)
Carol Wolkowitz
PART IV Subject matters	251	(81)
Introduction	253	(6)
Jane Kilby
Celia Lury
Objects of innovation: post-occupational reflexivity and re-traditionalisations of gender	259	(14)
Lisa Adkins
Consumerism and `compulsory individuality': women, will and potential	273	(15)
Anne M. Cronin
Reframing pregnant embodiment	288	(15)
Imogen Tyler
Monsters, marvels and metaphysics: beyond the powers of horror	303	(13)
Margrit Shildrick
Belonging and unbelonging: transformations of memory in the photographs of Virginia Woolf	316	(16)
Maggie Humm
Index	332