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Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular
Naomi Schor
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Description for Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular
Paperback.
Bad objects are a contrarian’s delight. In this volume, leading French feminist theorist and literary critic Naomi Schor revisits some of feminist theory’s most widely discredited objects, essentialism and universalism, with surprising results. Bilingual and bicultural, she reveals the national character of contemporary theories that are usually received as beyond borders, while making a strong argument for feminist theory’s specific claims to universalism.
Written in a distinctive personal and self-reflective mode, this collection offers new unpublished work and brings together for the first time some of Schor’s best-known and most influential essays. These engagements with Anglo-American feminist theory, Freud and ... Read more
Bad objects are a contrarian’s delight. In this volume, leading French feminist theorist and literary critic Naomi Schor revisits some of feminist theory’s most widely discredited objects, essentialism and universalism, with surprising results. Bilingual and bicultural, she reveals the national character of contemporary theories that are usually received as beyond borders, while making a strong argument for feminist theory’s specific claims to universalism.
Written in a distinctive personal and self-reflective mode, this collection offers new unpublished work and brings together for the first time some of Schor’s best-known and most influential essays. These engagements with Anglo-American feminist theory, Freud and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822316930
SKU
V9780822316930
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99-1
About Naomi Schor
Naomi Schor is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of several books including, Breaking the Chain, Reading in Detail, and George Sand and Idealism.
Reviews for Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular
"As one has come to expect from Naomi Schor, the arguments she advances are forceful, challenging and, above all, elegant. Highly individual and distinct, these essays consistently achieve their aim of reposing the essential questions of feminist theory."—Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California "This is an impressive volume of elegant essays that will confirm Schor’s reputation as one of feminism’s ... Read more