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Language, Discourse, Society: Am I That Name?

Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History

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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.

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Language, Discourse, Society: Am I That Name?, Denise Riley, Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe

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1988
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Titel
Language, Discourse, Society: Am I That Name?
Ondertitel
Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History
Taal
Engels
Jaar van publicatie
1988
Formaat
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
132
ISBN10
0333346130
ISBN13
9780333346136
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Aantekening
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.