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Feminism and Power - The Need for Critical Theory (Paperback)
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Feminism and Power - The Need for Critical Theory (Paperback)
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Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter
manuscript which offers an important critique of "power feminism."
The latter, having produced such spinoffs as "grrrl power,"
"choice," "babe," "lipstick," and "stiletto" feminisms, encourages
women to be strong, self-sufficient, feisty, and independent. While
I have no argument with much of that tough-minded ideal, I ask
whether this "brave new girl" doesn't too readily acquiesce in a
neo-liberal ideology whose underlying tenets derive from American
rugged individualism. At its worst, this strain within Third Wave
feminism contains no critique of capitalism, no distance on
neoliberal theory, no effort to address the injustices contained in
globalization's asymmetries and the industrialized North's
exploitation of developing countries. Feminism and Power: the Need
for Critical Theory therefore argues that the critical theories of
Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida have much to offer feminism, and
a feminist understanding of female empowerment. Its pages rely on
Adorno's assertion that it is only by allowing the sufferer to
speak that we can unveil social truth rather than be duped by the
bravado of victory culture. Similarly, it demonstrates how
Derrida's insistence on the trace, as well as the asymmetries of
friendship and hospitality, lead feminism away from the perils of
contented triumphalism. The book promotes listening as a
paradigmatic feminist gesture, rather than always speaking up and
out.
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