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Activism
Alterity
Androcentrism
Anti-racism
Audre Lorde
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Betty Friedan
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Colonialism
Cornel West
Dialogic
Dictee
Epistemology of the Closet
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Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Family resemblance
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist aesthetics
Feminist history
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist theory
Gayle Rubin
Gender Trouble
Good and evil
Gynocriticism
H.D.
Historicism
Hybridity
Imperialism
Jacques Derrida
Judith Butler
Liberal feminism
Luce Irigaray
Modernity
Mrs.
Multiculturalism
Narrative
Oppression
Orientalism
Poetry
Political correctness
Politics
Post-structuralism
Postcolonial feminism
Postfeminism
Postmodernism
Powers of Horror
Presentism (literary and historical analysis)
Problematization
Queer
Racism
Radical feminism
Sensationalism
Separatism
Sexism
Sherene Razack
Sister Outsider
Socialist feminism
Subaltern (postcolonialism)
Subjectivity
Superiority (short story)
The Contact Zone (theoretical concept)
The Death of the Author
Thick description
Transnational feminism
Virginia Woolf
Womanism
Women's writing (literary category)
Woolf
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691058047
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed. Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity.
Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Gloria Anzald%a, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, and Irena Klepfisz. Defending the pioneering role of academic feminists in the knowledge revolution, this work draws on a wide variety of twentieth-century cultural expressions to address theoretical issues in postmodern feminism.
Susan Stanford Friedman is Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
