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Turning on its head that familiar "woman question," this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation. Ferguson rebukes the sense of coherence contained in patriarchal theory in the name of a voice that both calls upon and challenges the category
woman. Stepping back from the opposition of male and female, she artfully loosens the hold of gender on life and meaning, creating and at the same time deconstructing a women's point of view. Posing the "man question" provides a way not only to view male power and female subordination but also to valorize and problematize women's experiences, thus destabilizing conventional notions of
man and
woman.
Sommario
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Interpretation and Genealogy in Feminism
Ontologies and Subjectivities
Languages, Histories, Politics
Ironic Convergences and Common Front Politics
2. Male-Ordered Subjectivity
Identity and Desire in Hegel
Feminist Alternatives to the Hegelian Subject
3· Praxis Feminism
Creating Praxis Feminism
Essentialism?
Ironic Interventions
4· Cosmic Feminism
Creating Cosmic Feminism
Kitsch, Appropriation, and Irony
5· Linguistic Feminism
Creating Linguistic Feminism
Kitsch, Irony, and the Traffic In Between
6. Mobile Subjectivities
Tragic Choices, Happy Endings, or Ironic Encounters
Class Encounters of a Third Kind
Ironic Convergences, Coalition Politics, and Kitsch
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Kathy E. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Hawai'i, and author of
The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy and
Self, Society and Womankind: The Dialectic of Liberation.
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Turning on its head that familiar 'woman question,' this work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation. It rebukes the sense of coherence contained in patriarchal theory in the name of a voice that both calls upon and challenges the category woman.
