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The Essential Difference
Schor
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Description for The Essential Difference
Paperback.
What is essentialism? What is anti-essentialism? The Essential Difference attempts to answer questions at the heart of current feminist theory and cultural study. The book deals with origins and contexts of the debate; relationships between essentialism, anti-essentialism, and the power of language; reasons for the demonization of essentialism within the academy; the relationship between essentialism and Third World studies.
The essays also speculate about whether there can be an anti-essentialist feminism, whether there can in fact be a feminist politics that dispenses with the notion of Woman. This long-awaited volume questions the bases of feminism itself.
The contributors are Teresa ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253350930
SKU
V9780253350930
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99-1
About Schor
NAOMI SCHOR is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature at Duke University. Her books include Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction, Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine, and George Sand and Idealism. With Elizabeth Weed she is founding co-editor of differences. ELIZABETH WEED is Associate Director of the Pembroke Center for ... Read more
Reviews for The Essential Difference
" ... recommend it to anyone who is interested in questions of the body, subjectivity and sexual difference." - Women's Philosophy