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Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the...



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Speaking through the Mask is a thoughtful, closely reasoned work... It succeeds as a thoroughgoing feminist reading of Arendt, written as much to show how feminist theory challenges Arendt's blind spots as to illustrate what Arendt has to teach feminism... This is an original and important book, one that manages at once to talk back to Hannah Arendt and to make it plain why so many feminists are talking about her.

* The Journal of Politics *

... complex and interesting....

* Choice *

Moruzzi provides a compelling case for using feminist psychoanalytic insights to enrich Arendt's concept of political agency.

* Women and Politics *

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/01/2001
      ISBN13: 9780801437854, 978-0801437854
      ISBN10: 0801437857
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the...



      Trade Review

      Speaking through the Mask is a thoughtful, closely reasoned work... It succeeds as a thoroughgoing feminist reading of Arendt, written as much to show how feminist theory challenges Arendt's blind spots as to illustrate what Arendt has to teach feminism... This is an original and important book, one that manages at once to talk back to Hannah Arendt and to make it plain why so many feminists are talking about her.

      * The Journal of Politics *

      ... complex and interesting....

      * Choice *

      Moruzzi provides a compelling case for using feminist psychoanalytic insights to enrich Arendt's concept of political agency.

      * Women and Politics *

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