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Book SynopsisWhat does feminism mean at the millennium? Can we say that such a thing as a women's movement exists anymore, and, if so, in what form? Why are so few women willing to identify as feminist; are we really post-feminism, or do we still need a woman-centered political discourse? And what might a feminist theory and practice capable of addressing the aspirations of all women look like? These are the fundamental questions about women's needs, experiences, and ideas explored in this volume. This powerful and empowering volume challenges conventional notions about differences of race, class and sexuality among women, bringing critical insights from the fields of anthropology, cultural and ethnic studies, history, sociology, and literary studies. Examined in this collection are many aspects of exclusion in feminist thought, including women's use of masculinist theory, the processes of tokenism and erasure prevalent in educational institutions, and the status of women in erotic discourse.
Trade Review"Mary Brewer homes in on controversial issues among women pornography, rape, mothering, domesticity and work, and debates about the butch/fem model and gender-bending among lesbians." -- Alan Sinfield, Professor of Literature, University of Sussex
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction by Mary Brewer; Practising Difference Differently: Cyborg Consciousness and Political Practice; Ivory Towers and Guardians of the Word: Language and Discourse in the Academy; TransForm/ando Women's Studies: Latina Theory: Re-Imagines America; Violating the Seal of Race: The Politics of (Post)Identity and the Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy; (Post)Colonial (Dis)orders: Female Embodiment as Chaos in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine; "See, I've got my tit out!": Women's Performance Art and Punk Rock; Leaving Las Vegas: Reading the Prostitute as a Voice of Abjection; Theorising Feminisms: Breast Cancer Narratives and Reconstructed 'Women'; Aboriginal Women and the Canadian Women's Movement; Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialised Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism; Feminism and the Aesthetic; Bodily Transactions: Jean Genet in the Feminist Debate; 'Doing' Judith: Race, Mixed Race and Performativity; Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminist, Lesbian or Transgendered?; The Contributors; Index.
