Coming to Terms (RLE Feminist Theory) Feminism, Theory, Politics [Paperback]

For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the development of a strong identity politics; on the other, they have been part of the post-structuralist critique of the unified subject  its experience, truth and presence  and of the massive challenge to Western metaphysics and humanism. Along with race and ethnic studies, feminist enquiry has moved beyond the fiction of a unitary feminism to address the differences within the study of difference.

The essays in this volume all address feminisms relationships to theory and politics at the level of the criticism and production of knowledge. Readers and students of politics, history, literature, philosophy, sociology and the sciences  anyone with a stake in theory and politics  will benefit from this powerful book.

Acknowledgements.&nbsp; Introduction: Terms of Reference Elizabeth Weed. &nbsp;Feminist Politics of Interpretation. &nbsp;1. Changing the Subject Nancy K. Miller&nbsp; 2. Julia Kristeva: Take Two Jacqueline Rose&nbsp; 3. (Commentary) Postponing Politics Margaret W. Ferguson.&nbsp; Sexual Difference and Indifference.&nbsp; 4. Dreaming Dissymmetry: Barthes, Foucault and Sexual Difference Naomi Schor&nbsp; 5. Is there a Lesbian in this Text? Derrida, Wittig and the Politics of the Three Women Heather Findlay &nbsp;6. (Commentary) Post-Utopian Difference Mary Ann Doane. &nbsp;Writing History. &nbsp;7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Joan W. Scott &nbsp;8. The Body Politic Carroll Smith-Rosenberg &nbsp;9. The Problem of Race in Womens HistoryEvelyn Brooks-Higginbotham&nbsp; 10. (Commentary) Feminism and the Consolidations of Women in History <l3“