Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

In the past decade the central principles of western feminist theory have been dramatically challenged. many feminists have endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to contemporary critiques of modernity. Earlier 'women' have been radically undermined, and newer concerns with 'difference', 'identity', and 'power' have emerged. Destabilizing Theory explores these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by feminist theorists. Does this change amount to a real shift within feminist theory, or will feminism's links with an emancipatory modernism reinstate an older political agenda? Can we transcend the common counterposition of equality and difference, or is feminism condemned to argue within the terms of this binary opposition?

Author: Michèle Barrett, Anne Phillips
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 07/01/1992
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780804720311
ISBN10: 0804720312
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory

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