| Feminist Imagination: Genealogies in Feminist Theory Contributor(s): Bell, Vikki (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803979711 ISBN-13: 9780803979710 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $65.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: 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 feminism as a site and mode of making these connections. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 99072800 |
| Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.42" W x 9" (0.61 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Bell, Vikki: - Vikki Bell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, university of London. |