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Feminists theorize the political

English / Editors- Butler, Judith; Scott, Joan Wallach: (London: Routledge, 1992)

Keywords - {Feminist Theory, Structuralism, Postmodernism, Political Aspects, Social Aspects} Status - Checkshelf

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Record Number - {06668}

Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii

I Contesting Grounds
1. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question
of “Postmodernism” JUDITH BUTLER 3
2. “Experience” JOAN W. SCOTT 22
3. Feminism and George Sand: Lettres a Marcie NAOMI SCHOR 41
4. French Feminism Revisited: Ethics and Politics
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK 54
5. Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d
Other: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape
DONNA HARAWAY 86
6. Postmodern Automatons REY CHOW 101

II. Signifying Identity
7. A Short History of Some Preoccupations
DENISE RILEY 121
8. Dealing with Differences CHRISTINA CROSBY 130
9. Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black
Woman Writer’s Literary Tradition
MAE GWENDOLYN HENDERSON 144
10. The Real Miss Beauchamp: Gender and the Subject of
Imitation RUTH LEYS 167
11. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the
Politics of Identity B. HONIG 215

III. Subjects Before the Law
12. The Abortion Question and the Death of Man MARY POOVEY 239
13. “Shahbano” ZAKIA PATHAK AND RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN 257
14. Gender, Sex, and Equivalent Rights DRUCILLA L. CORNELL 280
15. Women “Before” the Law: Judicial Stories about Women,
Work, and Sex Segregation on the Job VICKI SCHULTZ 297

IV. Critical Practices
16. The Issue Foundations: Scientized Politics, Politicized Science,
and Feminist Critical Practice KIRSTIE McCLURE 341
17. Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics
CHANTAL MOUFFE 369
18. Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape
Prevention SHARON MARCUS 385
19. Gender, Power, and Historical Memory: Discourses of
Serrano Resistance ANA MARIA ALONSO 404
20. A Pedagogy for Postcolonial Feminists ZAKIA PATHAK 426

V. Postmodern Post-Script
21. The End of Innocence JANE FLAX 445
22. Feminism and Postmodernism LINDA SINGER 464

Index 476
Notes on Contributors 482

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