Description
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the question of difference in feminist theory, from liberal, radical, lesbian and socialist theories to black and post-colonial feminisms. It relates feminist approaches to difference and diversity to the tendency within postmodernism to celebrate them without due attention.
Trade Review"This is a book I would recommend to anyone wanting to understand recent developments in feminist theory. It offers excellent lucid accounts of theoretical debates, locates these effectively within a political context and offers a constructively critical, rather then hostile or celebratory, engagement with a politics of difference."
New Formations "This is an extremely useful book for Women's Studies and Gender courses at whatever level". MLR
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. The Question of Difference.
2. Challenging Patriarchy, Decentring Heterosexuality: Radical and Revolutionary Feminisms.
3. Lesbian Difference, Feminism and Queer Theory.
4. Psychoanalysis and Difference.
5. The Production and Subversion of Gender: Postmodern Approaches.
6. Class.
7. Race, Racism and the Problem of Whiteness.
8. Beyond Eurocentrism: Feminism and the Politics of Difference in a Global Frame.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
