Knowing Women

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Knowing Women explores some of the most exciting and new developments in feminist theory, engaging the reader as an active participant in critical debates concerning the status of women as both objects and subjects of knowledge.
The book introduces and reappraises key feminist questions concerning sex and gender, biology and the body, sexuality and motherhood. Various psychoanalytical perspectives are critically examined for the light they throw on the social and symbolic constructions of femininity. Later chapters explore theories of the subject and subjectivity, the place of language in the construction of social identities and the relation between discourse, power and knowledge. A concluding chapter focuses on the debate between feminism and postmodernism, stressing the political nature of the feminist project.
The debates are presented in a way that will make them accessible to students. Introductions to each chapter lay out the main issues and introduce readings chosen for... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Knowing Women explores some of the most exciting and new developments in feminist theory, engaging the reader as an active participant in critical debates concerning the status of women as both objects and subjects of knowledge.
The book introduces and reappraises key feminist questions concerning sex and gender, biology and the body, sexuality and motherhood. Various psychoanalytical perspectives are critically examined for the light they throw on the social and symbolic constructions of femininity. Later chapters explore theories of the subject and subjectivity, the place of language in the construction of social identities and the relation between discourse, power and knowledge. A concluding chapter focuses on the debate between feminism and postmodernism, stressing the political nature of the feminist project.
The debates are presented in a way that will make them accessible to students. Introductions to each chapter lay out the main issues and introduce readings chosen for their clarity and accessibility. Ideal as an introductory textbook in feminism and women's studies, Knowing Women will also appeal to a wide readership interested in current debates in feminist theory.
Contributors include Audre Lorde, Cynthia Rich, Lynda Birke, Alison M. Jaggar, Susan Bordo, Catharine McKinnon, Lynne Segal, Carole S. Vance, Nancy Chodorow, Joanna Ryan, Rosalind Minsky, Sarah Maguire, Judith Williamson, Wendy Hollway, Biddy Martin, Razia Aziz, Lata Mani, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Sandra Harding and Elizabeth Gross.
Helen Crowley is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of North London and Susan Himmelweit is Senior Lecturer in Economics, at The Open University.
The other books in this series are:
Defining Women: Social Institutions and Gender Divisions
edited by Linda McDowell and Rosemary Pringle
Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender
edited by Gill Kirkup and Laurie Smith Keller
Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender
edited by Frances Bonner, Lizbeth Goodman, Richard Allen, Linda Janes
and Catherine King Vissza