‘Am I That Name?’ : Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History Paperback / softback
by Denise Riley
Part of the Language, Discourse, Society series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:126 pages, VI, 126 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:28/10/1988
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- ISBN:9780333346136
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:126 pages, VI, 126 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:28/10/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780333346136