Feminist Consequences - Theory for the New Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-11704-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.

These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, literature, and representation. Contributors include Mieke Bal, Lauren Berlant, Rosi Braidotti, Elisabeth Bronfen, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Beatrice Hanssen, Claire Kahane, Ranjana Khanna, Biddy Martin, Juliet Mitchell, Anita Haya Patterson, and Valerie Smith.

Feminist Consequences, representing the forefront of international feminist thought, marks a new and long-desired stage of feminist criticism where women are themselves making theory rather than reacting to male production.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bronfen, Elisabeth

Kavka, Misha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

3. Gender and Representation, by Rey Chow4. Whatever Happened to Feminist Theory?, by Beatrice HanssenPart 2 The Ethics of Affect5. Ethical Ambiguities and Specters of Colonialism: Futures of Transnational Feminism, by Ranjana Khanna6. The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics, by Lauren Berlant7. Dark Mirrors: A Feminist Reflection on Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Metaphor, by Claire Kahane8. Class and Gender in Narratives of Passing, by Valerie SmithPart 3 The Pleasures of Agency9. Redressing Grievances: Cross-dressing Pleasure with the Law, by Elisabeth Bronfen10. Contingencies of Pleasure and Shame: Jamaican Women's Poetry, by Anita Haya Patterson11. Fierce Pussies and Lesbian Avengers: Dyke Activism Meets Celebrity Culture, by Ann CvetkovichPart 4 Where to Feminism?12. Enfolding Feminism, by Mieke Bal13. Success and Its Failures, by Biddy Martin14. Becoming-Woman: Rethinking the Positivity of Difference, by Rosi Braidotti15. The End of Sexual Difference?, by Judith ButlerA Return to the Future: An Interview with Drucilla CornellIntroduction, by Misha KavkaPart 1 Whatever Happened to Feminism?1. Psychoanalysis and Feminism at the Millennium, by Juliet Mitchell2. Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (excerpt), by Jane Gallop

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabeth Bronfen is the author, most recently, of The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Misha Kavka has published variously on male hysteria, modernist feminism, and gendered subjectivity in film. Both Bronfen and Kavka teach in the Department of English at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.