Overview
Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the `race′ trials of the twentieth century. The book looks at: the ′directionlessness′ of contemporary feminist thought; the question of essentialism and embodiment; the racial tensions in the work of Simone de Beauvoir; the totalitarian character in Hannah Arendt; the ′mimetic Jew′ and the concept of mimesis in the work of Judith Butler.Vikki Bell provides a compelling rethinking of feminist theory as bound up with attempts to understand oppression outside a focus on ′women′. She affirms femini
The book, Feminist Imagination: Genealogies in Feminist Theory (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780803979710 in Paperback by Vikki Bell may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01/28/2000
ISBN-10:
0803979711
ISBN-13:
9780803979710
Pages:
176
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
