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Informationen zum Autor By Mary Caputi Klappentext This book offers a critique of power feminism using the critical theories of Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida. It counters a triumphalist reading of female empowerment using the negative, parergonal philosophies of these two authors and advocates listening to the sufferer rather than celebrating the triumphalism of the reigning neoliberal order. Zusammenfassung This book offers a critique of power feminism using the critical theories of Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida. It counters a triumphalist reading of female empowerment using the negative! parergonal philosophies of these two authors and advocates listening to the sufferer rather than celebrating the triumphalism of the reigning neoliberal order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Forward Chapter One: Women's Empowerment and the Need for Critical Theory Chapter Two: Instrumental Rationality and the"Brave New Girl" Chapter Three: American Rugged IndividualismAnd "New Girl" Toughness Chapter Four: "Now Fight!" Violence and Vulgarity Chapter Five: Feel-Good Feminism and the PowerOf Aesthetic Reasoning Chapter Six: Listening, A Feminist Practice Bibliography
