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Title:

FEMINIST IMAGINATION
GENEALOGIES IN FEMINIST THEORY

By:

Vikki Bell

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Paperback

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0803979711

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9780803979710

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Publisher:

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

Pub. date:

24 November, 1999

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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Pages:

176

Description:

Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the `race' trials of the twentieth century. The book looks at: the 'directionlessness' of contemporary feminist thought; the question of essentialism and embodiment; the racial tensions in the work of Simone de Beauvoir; the totalitarian character in Hannah Arendt; the 'mimetic Jew' and the concept of mimesis in the work of Judith Butler. Vikki Bell provides a compelling rethinking of feminist theory as bound up with attempts to understand oppression outside a focus on 'women'. She affirms femini

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