'Am I That Name?'

Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History
1988. Auflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-333-34613-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, Riley argues, have had no choice but to play out this indeterminacy of women. This is made plain in their oscillations, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality and of difference. To fully recognize the ambiguity of the category of "women" is, she contends, a necessary condition for an effective feminist political philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, Denise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements - Does a Sex have a History? - Progresses of the Soul - 'The Social', 'Women', and Sociological Feminism - The Womanly Vote - Bodies, Identities, Feminisms - Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

DENISE RILEY teaches at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has also held teaching posts at Brown University and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her most recent books are and .