A01=Vikki Bell
Author_Vikki Bell
Category=JBSF11
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Social Theory
Sociology of Gender
Product details
- ISBN 9780803979710
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 1999
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 feminism as a site and mode of making these connections.
Vikki Bell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, university of London.
