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Bad Objects - Essays Popular and Unpopular (Paperback, New ed.)
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Bad Objects - Essays Popular and Unpopular (Paperback, New ed.)
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Bad objects are a contrarian's delight. In this volume, leading
French feminist theorist and literary critic Naomi Schor revisits
some of feminist theory's most widely discredited objects,
essentialism and universalism, with surprising results. Bilingual
and bicultural, she reveals the national character of contemporary
theories that are usually received as beyond borders, while making
a strong argument for feminist theory's specific claims to
universalism.
Written in a distinctive personal and self-reflective mode, this
collection offers new unpublished work and brings together for the
first time some of Schor's best-known and most influential essays.
These engagements with Anglo-American feminist theory, Freud and
psychoanalytic theory, French poststructuralists such as Barthes,
Foucault, and Irigaray, and French fiction by or about
women--especially of the nineteenth century--also address such
issues as bilingual identity, professional controversies, female
fetishism, and literature and gender. Schor then concludes with a
provocative meditation on the future of feminism.
As they read Bad Objects, Anglo-American theoreticians who have
been mainly preoccupied with French feminism will find themselves
drawn into French literary and cultural history, while French
literary critics and historians will be placed in contact with
feminist debate.
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