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Zusatztext "A provocative and refreshing look at where the pieces have fallen since the feminist sex wars of the 1980s and theoretical developments that have followed in the past two decades. Halley's first person, conversational style . . . is bold, witty, candid, incisive and accessible. A potentially polarizing call to take a break from feminism could not be more elegantly presented." ---Prabha Kotiswaran, Feminist Legal Studies Informationen zum Autor Janet Halley is Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches family law, comparative family law, discrimination law, the legal regulation of sexuality, and legal theory. She is the author of Don't: A Reader's Guide to Military Anti-Gay Policy and, with Wendy Brown, coeditor of Left Legalism/Left Critique . Klappentext Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism does not reveal--the interests of gays and lesbians to be sure, but also those of men, and of constituencies and values beyond the realm of sex and gender--we might need to take a break from feminism. Halley also invites feminism to abandon its uncritical relationship to its own power. Feminists are, in many areas of social and political life, partners in governance. To govern responsibly, even on behalf of women, Halley urges, feminists should try taking a break from their own presuppositions. Halley offers a genealogy of various feminisms and of gay, queer, and trans theories as they split from each other in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. All these incommensurate theories, she argues, enrich thinking on the left not despite their break from each other but because of it. She concludes by examining legal cases to show how taking a break from feminism can change your very perceptions of what's at stake in a decision and liberate you to decide it anew. Zusammenfassung Reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. This book argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi PART ONE: Taking a Break from Feminism The Argument 3 My Complete and Total Lack of Objectivity 11 Taxonomies and Terms 16 m/f! m ??f! and Carrying a Brief for f 17 Governance Feminism 20 Feminism! Sexual and Reproductive 22 A Sex Lexicon 23 Convergentism and Divergentism 25 A Story of Sexual-Subordination Feminism and Its Others 27 Liberation and Responsibility 31 PART TWO: The Political/Theoretical Struggle over Taking a Break Before the Break: Some Feminist Priors 41 Power Feminism 41 Catharine A. MacKinnon! Early and Late 41 Cultural Feminism 58 Robin West! Caring for Justice 60 MACKINNON/WEST 76 Liberal Feminism 79 Convergentist and Divergentist Hybrid Feminism The Combahee River Collective Statement 82 THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT/ THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT 89 Gayatri Spivak! "Can the Subaltern Speak?" 91 MACKINNON/WEST/COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE/SPIVAK 102 The Break 106 Gay Identity/Feminism/Queer Theory 107 Gayle Rubin! "Thinking Sex" 114 Receiving French Social Theory 119 Michel Foucault! Volume One 119 FOUCAULT/MACKINNON/WEST/GAY IDENTITY POLITICS 124 The Split! from Feminism and within It 132 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick! Epistemology of the Closet 133 Judith Butler! Gender Trouble 136 BUTLER/MACKINNON 139 Butler! "Imitation" 140 Rubin! "Interview" 146 Feminism from Its Outside: Queer Theory by Men 150 Leo Bersani! "Is the Rectum a Grave?" 151 BERSANI/TAKING A BREAK 165 Duncan Kennedy! "Sexy Dressing" 1...
