Category Archives: Feminist Theory

Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (Praxis: Theory in Action)

Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.

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Postfeminism: Cultural Texts and Theories

This book is the first introductory text on postfeminism. It provides an indispensable guide that both surveys and critically positions the main issues, theories and contemporary debates surrounding the term. The book analyzes postfeminism’s underpinnings and critical contexts, different definitions … Continue reading

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A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how … Continue reading

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Judith Butler’s Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters

Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past twenty years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory. Each chapter is written by an acclaimed political theorist and concentrates … Continue reading

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The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Ideas in Context)

Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir’s views on gender. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places her … Continue reading

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Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

This is a revised edition of Walker’s well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker’s book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to … Continue reading

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from … Continue reading

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Indian Feminisms: Law Patriarchies and Feminism in India

Contributing to recent debates on feminism, and Indian feminism in particular, this book assesses how feminists in India have impacted legal and social debates on women’s rights, violence against women and sexuality from the 1970s. The author examines and analyses … Continue reading

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Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality (Key Sociologists)

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist … Continue reading

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The Future of Gender

“Gender” is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree does gender relate to sex? How does gender … Continue reading

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