A01=Kathy E. Ferguson
appropriation
Author_Kathy E. Ferguson
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coalition politics
conventional norms
cosmic feminism
cultural norms
cultural studies
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essentialism
female subordination
feminism
feminist theory
gender
gender categories
gender studies
genealogy
hegel
hegelian subject
innovative
irony
kitsch
linguistic feminism
male and female
male power
masculinity
masculinity studies
men and women
mobile subjectivity
ontology
patriarchal theory
political history
praxis feminism
sex and gender
subjectivity
the women question
Product details
- ISBN 9780520079915
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Turning on its head that familiar "woman question," this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation. Ferguson rebukes the sense of coherence contained in patriarchal theory in the name of a voice that both calls upon and challenges the category woman. Stepping back from the opposition of male and female, she artfully loosens the hold of gender on life and meaning, creating and at the same time deconstructing a women's point of view. Posing the "man question" provides a way not only to view male power and female subordination but also to valorize and problematize women's experiences, thus destabilizing conventional notions of man and woman.
Kathy E. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Hawai'i, and author of The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy and Self, Society and Womankind: The Dialectic of Liberation.
