Linda Nicholson (ed.)

Feminism/Postmodernism

Herausgeber: Nicholson, Linda

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Produktbeschreibung

Feminism/Postmodernism asks - is a postmodern feminist politics possible? Contributors consider issues such as the nature of personal and social identity, and the consequence of changing work and family relations on women's lives.

Produktdetails

• Thinking Gender
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780415900591
• ISBN-10: 041590059X
• Artikelnr.: 21406579

Autorenporträt

Linda J. Nicholson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part 1 Feminism As Against Epistemology?; Chapter 1 Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and PostmodernismThis essay has previously appeared in Communication
Vol. 10
Nos. 3 and 4
1988
pp. 345-366; Theory
Culture and Society
Vol. 5
Nos. 2 and 3
June 1988
pp. 373-394; Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism
ed. Andrew Ross (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
1988) pp. 83-104; The Institution of Philosophy: A Discipline in Crisis? ed. Avner Cohen and Marcelo Dascal (Peru
Illinois: Open Court Press
1989). We are grateful for the helpful suggestions of many people
especially Jonathan Arac
Ann Ferguson
Marilyn Frye
Nancy Hartsock
Alison Jaggar
Berel Lang
Thomas McCarthy
Karsten Struhl
Iris Young
Thomas Wartenburg
and the members of SOFPHIA. We are also grateful for word-processing help from Marina Rosiene.
Nancy Fraser
Linda J. Nicholson; Chapter 2 Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory
Jane Flax; Chapter 3 Dilemmas of Difference: Feminism
Modernity
and PostmodernismEarlier versions and portions of this paper were delivered to the Northwest Women's Studies Association Conference
Eastern Washington University
Cheney
WA
October 17 and 18
1986
and to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
the Palmer House
Chicago
September 3-6
1987. I am grateful to the various panel organizers
Part icipants
and audiences for helpful criticism and encouragement. Special thanks to Tom Dalglish
Susan Hekman
and Lisa Orlando for notably generous and detailed critical responses.
Christine Di Stefano; Chapter 4 Feminism
Science
and the Anti-Enlightenment Critiques
Sandra Harding; Chapter 5 Epistemologies of Postmodernism: A Rejoinder to Jean-François LyotardI would like to thank Andreas Huyssen and Wolf Schàfer for comments and criticisms.
Seyla Benhabib; Part 2 The Politics of Location; Chapter 6 Feminism
Postmodernism
and Gender-ScepticismThe writing of this Chapter was made possible by the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies/Ford Foundation. Written while I was in residence at the Duke University/University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women
it has benefitted greatly from my Part icipation in the Duke/UNC communities
especially from almost daily conversation with Lee Ann Whites
and from the insights and suggestions of friends and colleagues there who read and commented on earlier drafts: Ted Koditschek
Jean O'Barr
Lynne Tirrell
Jane Tompkins
and Mary Wyer. I am grateful to Mario Moussa and Linda Robertson for their help in enabling me to shape and clarify later drafts
at a point when I was beginning to lose my own distance and focus on the piece. I would also like to thank Pat Keane
Edward Lee
Bruce Shefrin
and Linda Nicholson for their comments and suggestions. Finally
it is impossible to adequately acknowledge the contribution of Lynne Arnault
for whose friendship
insight
ability to help me untie my intellectual knots
and deep philosophical and practical engagement with the issues of importance to both of us
I am constantly grateful.
Susan Bordo; Chapter 7 Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women? This Chapter is a revised version of a paper presented at a conference titled "The Gender of Power
" at University of Leiden
September 1987
and published as a Part of the conference proceedings. The Gender of Power
ed. Monique Lejnaar
Kathy Davis
Claudine Helleman
Jantine Oldersmaa
Dini Vos (Leiden: University of Leiden
1987).
Nancy Hartsock; Chapter 8 Travels in the Postmodern: Making Sense of the LocalMy thanks to Marty Allor and Larry Grossberg for their invaluable comments and conversations on these subjects.
Elspeth Probyn; Chapter 9 A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science
Technology
and Socialist Feminism in the 1980sThis article was first published in Socialist Review
No. 80
1985. The essay originated as a response to a call for political thinking about the 1980s from socialist-feminist points of view
in hopes of deepening our political and cultural debates in order to renew commitments to fundamental social change in the face of the Reagan years. The cyborg manifesto tried to find a feminist place for connected thinking and acting in profoundly contradictory worlds. Since its publication
this bit of cyborgian writing has had a surprising half life. It has proved impossible to rewrite the cyborg. Cyborg's daughter will have to find its own matrix in another essay
starting from the proposition that the immune system is the biotechnical body's chief system of differences in late capitalism
where feminists might find provocative extraterrestrial maps of the networks of embodied power marked by race
sex
and class. This Chapter is substantially the same as the 1985 version
with minor revisions and correction of notes.
Donna Haraway; Chapter 10 Mapping the PostmodernThis essay was first published in a slightly longer version in New German Critique
Vol. 33
Fall 1984
pp. 5-52. It was also published in Andreas Huyssen
After the Great Divide: Modernism
Mass Culture
Postmodernism
(Bloomington
IN: Indiana University Press
1986).
Andreas Huyssen; Part 3 Identity and Differentiation; Chapter 11 A Feminist Theory of Social Differentiation
Anna Yeatman; Chapter 12 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of DifferenceI am grateful to David Alexander
Ann Ferguson
Roger Gottlieb
Peter Manicas
Peter Onuf
Lucius Outlaw
Michael Ryan
Richard Schmitt
Ruth Smith
Tom Wartenburg
and Hugh Wilder for helpful comments on earlier versions of this Chapter.
Iris Marion Young; Chapter 13 Gender Trouble
Feminist Theory
and Psychoanalytic DiscourseMy genuine thanks to Joan W. Scott for giving thoughtful response to many versions of this piece. I am grateful to the American Council of Learned Societies and to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for sponsoring this work.
Judith Butler