Gender studies, gender groups
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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 femini
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- Publisher/Imprint SAGE Publications / SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date November 1999
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781848609341 / 0803979711
- Publication Country or regionCalifornia
- Primary Price 24.99 GBP
- Pages176
- ReadershipCollege - higher education
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesPublished in association with Theory, Culture & Society
- Reference CodeBDZ0000521086
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