Derrida and Feminism - Recasting the Question of Woman

The first-ever compilation of articles that highlights the intersection of Derridean and feminist theories--a work that represents the extensive and diverse response feminist theorists have had to Derrida, particularly to the issues of gender, identity, and the construction of the subject.

List of contents

Introduction -- Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, andEmily Zakin; 1. Jane Gallop -- "Women" in Spurs and Nineties Feminism; 2. Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin-- Flirting with the Truth: Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and Wenches; 3. Kelly Oliver -- The MaternalOperation: Circumscribing the Alliance; 4. Mary C.Rawlinson--Levers, Signatures, and Secrets: Derrida's Useof Woman; 5. Tina Chanter -- On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutics, Misreading Sexual Difference, and Neutralizing Narration; 6. EwaPlonowska Ziarek -- From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference; 7. John D. Caputo -- Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender; 8. Drucilla Cornell -- Where Love Begins: Sexual Difference and the Limit of the Masculine Symbolic.

About the author

Ellen K. Feder teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Vassar College.
Mary C. Rawlinson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook.
Emily Zakin teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Miami University.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Rawlinson Feder
• Assisted by: Ellen Feder (Editor), Mary Rawlinson (Editor), Mary C Rawlinson (Editor), Rawlinson Mary (Editor), Emily Zakin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138834699
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83469-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -