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Informationen zum Autor Vikki Bell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College! university of London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book extends the argument beyond its usual boundaries and confronts the spectres within feminist thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Affirming FeminismPhantastic Communities and Dangerous Thinking Feminist Political ImaginationSuffering Thinking Politics with Simone de Beauvoir and Richard WrightAppearance Thinking Difference in the Political Realm with Hannah ArendtMimesis as Cultural Survival Judith Butler and Anti-SemitismEssentialism and Embodiment The Politics Behind the ParanoiaConclusion Trauma and Temporality in Genealogical Feminist Critique
