Read more
This wide-ranging book responds to and moves beyond recent debates about the relationship between feminism and politics to offer a vision for the future of feminist theory. Leading figures have combined to offer a broad framework through which to articulate a `new democracy' - one that transgresses the traditional oppositions of equality and difference, sex and gender, essential and constructed, to view the `political' as complex, layered and relational.
Issues addressed include: gender, ethnicity, culture and sexual orientation, always embracing the multiple terrains and spaces produced by politics.
List of contents
Introduction
PART ONE: NATIONAL VICTIMS - `Siting/Citing/Sighting the New Democracy¿
`Flowers from the Volcanö - Kathleen B Jones
The Politics of Responsibility and Perspectives on Violence against Women
Feminism of the North and West for Export - Zillah Eisenstein
Transnational Capital and the Racializing of Gender
Exilic Affinities - Kate Mehuron
Diasporic Coalitions in an Epidemic
Forgotten History - Karen Engle and Ranjana Khanna
Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture
See No Evil, Speak No Evil - Renata Salecl
Hate Speech and Human Rights
PART TWO: PRACTICISING COALITIONS
Equality, Difference and Democracy - Nancy Fraser
Recent Feminist Debates in the United States
Constructing/Deconstructing `Women¿ - Manisha Desai
Reflections from the Contemporary Women¿s Movement in India
(Be)Coming Out - Shane Phelan
Lesbian Identity and Politics
Genealogical Feminism - Lee Quinby
A Politic Way of Looking
PART THREE: BODILY LOCATIONS
Spare Parts, Family Values, Old Children, Cheap - Patricia J Williams
The Regulation of Lesbian Sexuality through Erasure - Anna Marie Smith
The Case of Jennifer Saunders
Performing Theory - Shannon Bell
Socrates, Sam, Kate and Scarlot
PART FOUR: DEMOCRATIC REFLECTIONS
Gender Hierarchy, Equality, and the Possibility of Democracy - Drucilla Cornell
Musing as a Feminist in a Postfeminist Era - Patricia S Mann
The Reflective Solidarity of Democratic Feminism - Jodi Dean
Summary
This work offers a vision for the future of feminist theory, which moves away from the traditional oppositions of equality and difference, sex and gender, essential and constructed to a "new democracy" which encompasses the new concepts of freedom, equality and community.
