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Title: Feminine Subject, The
Author: HEKMAN SUSAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/09/2014
Imprint: POLITY
Price: $35.95
Publishing status: Active
In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, What does it mean to be awoman? Her answer to that question inaugurated a radicaltransformation of the meaning of woman that definedthe direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoirdiscovered is that it is impossible to define woman as an equal human being in our philosophical and politicaltradition. Her effort to redefine woman outside theseparameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation.The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir swork followed that path. Susan Hekman s original and highly engaging new book tracesthe evolution of woman from Beauvoir to the present.In a comprehensive synthesis of a number of feminist theorists shecovers French feminist thinkers Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous aswell as theorists such as Carol Gilligan, Carole Pateman and JudithButler. The book examines the relational self, feminist liberalismand Marxism, as well as feminist theories of race and ethnicity,radical feminism, postmodern feminism and material feminism. Hekmanargues that the effort to redefine woman in thecourse of feminist theory is a cumulative process in which eachapproach builds on that which has gone before.
Although they haveapproached woman from different perspectives,feminist theorists has moved beyond the negative definition of ourtradition to a new concept that continues to evolve. The Feminine Subject is a remarkably succinct yet wide-ranginganalysis which will appeal to all feminist scholars and students aswell as anyone interested in the changing nature of feminism sincethe 1950s.
ISBN: 9780745687841
Weight: 318g
Dimension: 214mm X 137mm
Pages: 240