Feminist Politics Identity, Difference, and Agency

by Orr, Deborah; Taylor, Dianna; Kahl, Eileen; Earle, Kathleen; Rainwater, Christa; Weber, Jutta; Belleau, Marie-Claire; Ben-Porath, Sigal; Bailey, Cathryn; Benjamin, Marlene; Griffiths, Morwenna; Bailey, Allison; Krondorfer, Birge; Miller, Marjorie; Brettsc

• ISBN13: 9780742547780
• ISBN10: 0742547787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Reconceptualizing Challenges to Entrenched Political Divides
Introduction to Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, and Agency	p. 3
The Mind/Body Paradigm Crisis and a New Paradigm for Feminism	p. 15
Who's Afraid of Nature? The Rise and Fall of "Denaturalization" in Contemporary Feminist Thought	p. 41
"L'intersectionnalite": Feminisms in a Divided World; Quebec-Canada	p. 51
Feminism Under Fire	p. 63
When Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Third-wave Cultural Engagement as Political Activism	p. 81
My Once and Future Self	p. 99
Putting Identity Back into Politics
Keeping Authenticity in Play-Or Being Naughty to Be Good	p. 119
Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character	p. 141
Mobility-Unlimitation-Acceleration: General Insights and Feminist Intentions	p. 159
Place, Movement, and Identity: Rethinking Empowerment	p. 173
Theorizing Identities as Mutually Constitutive: A Critical Reading of Spelman, Aristotle, and Jewish Law	p. 185
Feminist Politics and Pluralism: Can We Do Feminist Political Theory without Theories of Gender?	p. 213
Arendt, Foucault, and Feminist Politics: A Critical Reappraisal	p. 243
Index	p. 265
About the Contributors	p. 271
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