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Hope and Feminist Theory (Paperback)
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Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for
equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be
characterised as a politics of hope, a movement underpinned by a
utopian drive for equality. This version of hope has been used, for
example in Barack Obama's phrase 'the audacity of hope' - a
mobilisation of an affirmative politics which nevertheless implies
that we are living in hopeless times. Similiarly, in recent years,
feminism has seen the production of a prevailing mood of
hopelessness around a generational model of progress, which is
widely imagined to have 'failed'. However, as a number of feminist
theorists have pointed out, the temporality of feminism cannot be
conceived as straightforwardly linear: feminism can only be
imagined as having failed if it is understood as a particular set
of relations and things. This collection grapples with the question
of hope: how it figures and structures feminist theory as both a
movement towards certain goals, and as inherently hopeful.
Questions addressed include: Does hope necessarily imply a fantasy
of perfectibility, a progression to a utopian future? Might it also
be conceived in other ways: as an attachment?A lure? Does life tend
towards hope, happiness, optimism? And, if so, what are the
consequences when hope fails? Who decides which hopes are false?
What is the cost of giving up hope? This book was published as a
special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.
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