Destabilizing Theory - Contemporary Feminist Debates (Hardcover)

In the past decade the central principles of western feminist theory have been dramatically challenged. many feminists have endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to contemporary critiques of modernity. Earlier 'women' have been radically undermined, and newer concerns with 'difference', 'identity', and 'power' have emerged. Destabilizing Theory explores these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by feminist theorists. Does this change amount to a real shift within feminist theory, or will feminism's links with an emancipatory modernism reinstate an older political agenda? Can we transcend the common counterposition of equality and difference, or is feminism condemned to argue within the terms of this binary opposition?

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	Michele Barrett • Anne Phillips
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-2030-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-8047-2030-4
Barcode:	9780804720304

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