The feminine subject
"In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define "woman" as an equal human being in our philosophical and political tradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside these parameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation. The feminist theorists who wr…
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- Full title :The feminine subject / Susan Hekman.
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"In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define "woman" as an equal human being in our philosophical and political tradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside these parameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation. The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir's work followed that path."--Back cover.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:228 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745687841, 0745687849, 9780745687834, 0745687830
- oclc:ocn880965139
- LC Classification:HQ1190
- Dewey Decimal:305.4201
Table of Contents
Simone de Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The Feminine Subject -- Difference I: The "French Feminists" -- Difference II: Radical Feminism and the Relational Self -- Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism -- From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality -- The Material Subject.
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