Continental Feminism Reader

by Cahill, Ann J.; Hansen, Jennifer; Butler, Judith; Braidotti, Rosi; Brennan, Teresa; Oliver, Kelly; Cornell, Drucilla; Laureti, Teresa de; Gatens, Moira; Grosz, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780742523098
• ISBN10: 0742523098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-05
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Ann J. Cahill and Jennifer Hansen collect the most groundbreaking recent work in Continental feminist theory, introducing and explaining pieces that are often mystifying to those outside the field and outside academia. With these essays, Continental Feminism Reader begins the process of reanimating feminist politics through the critical tools of its contributors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Judith Butler
Introduction: The Politics of Sexual Identity	p. 23
Gender Trouble	p. 29
"'Woman' As the Subject of Feminism"	p. 29
"Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions"	p. 34
"Conclusion: From Parody to Politics"	p. 47
Rosi Braidotti
Introduction: Nomadic Subjectivity	p. 57
Sexual Difference As a Nomadic Political Project	p. 62
Teresa Brennan
Introduction: Detours and Delays	p. 89
Social Pressure	p. 96
Essence against Identity	p. 124
Kelly Oliver
Introduction: Abjected Maternal Love and Paternal Pathology	p. 137
The Morality of American Manhood, Responsibility, and Virility	p. 144
What Is Transformative about the Performative? From Repetition to Working-Through	p. 168
Drucilla Cornell
Introduction: Equivalent Rights	p. 191
Living Together: Psychic Space and the Demand for Sexual Equality	p. 196
Teresa de Lauretis
Introduction: Women Writing Passionate Fictions of Woman	p. 221
Through the Looking Glass: Women, Cinema, and Language	p. 228
Moira Gatens
Introduction: Imaginary Bodies and Real Difference	p. 253
Power, Bodies, and Difference	p. 258
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of the Body	p. 275
Elizabeth Grosz
Introduction: The Promise of the Unruly Body	p. 287
Sexed Bodies	p. 292
Index	p. 323
About the Editors	p. 327
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