Why Stories Matter - The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory

Informationen zum Autor Clare Hemmings is Reader in Feminist Theory and Director of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Gender and Sexuality, co-author of Practising Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies, and a member of the Feminist Review Collective. Klappentext A critical rethinking of women's studies, focusing on narratives of progress, loss, and return within the discipline. Zusammenfassung A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One 1. Progress 31 2. Loss 59 3. Return 95 Part Two 4. Amenability 131 5. Citation Tactics 161 6. Affective Subjects 191 Notes 227 Bibliography 245 Index 265

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Clare Hemmings
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.01.2011
• EAN: 9780822349167
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4916-7
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata