Feminism and Power

Released on by Mary Caputi
preview-18

  • Feminism and Power Book Detail

  • Author : Mary Caputi
  • Release Date : 2013-05-16
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 220
  • ISBN 13 : 0739175807
  • File Size : 15,15 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Feminism and Power by Mary Caputi PDF Summary

Book Description: Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of “power feminism.” The latter, having produced such spinoffs as “grrrl power,” “choice,” “babe,” “lipstick,” and “stiletto” feminisms, encourages women to be strong, self-sufficient, feisty, and independent. While I have no argument with much of that tough-minded ideal, I ask whether this “brave new girl” doesn’t too readily acquiesce in a neo-liberal ideology whose underlying tenets derive from American rugged individualism. At its worst, this strain within Third Wave feminism contains no critique of capitalism, no distance on neoliberal theory, no effort to address the injustices contained in globalization’s asymmetries and the industrialized North’s exploitation of developing countries. Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory therefore argues that the critical theories of Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida have much to offer feminism, and a feminist understanding of female empowerment. Its pages rely on Adorno’s assertion that it is only by allowing the sufferer to speak that we can unveil social truth rather than be duped by the bravado of victory culture. Similarly, it demonstrates how Derrida’s insistence on the trace, as well as the asymmetries of friendship and hospitality, lead feminism away from the perils of contented triumphalism. The book promotes listening as a paradigmatic feminist gesture, rather than always speaking up and out.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Feminism and Power books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Feminism and Power

Feminism and Power

File Size : 92,92 MB
Total View : 3077 Views
DOWNLOAD

Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of “power feminism.” The latter, having prod

Women & Power

Women & Power

File Size : 88,88 MB
Total View : 6658 Views
DOWNLOAD

An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits

The Power of Feminist Theory

The Power of Feminist Theory

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 6725 Views
DOWNLOAD

Draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists in order to illustrate and construct a new feminist conception of power.

Gender and Power

Gender and Power

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 1010 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book is an important introductory textbook on sexual politics and an original contribution to the reformulation of social and political theory. In a discus

Data Feminism

Data Feminism

File Size : 9,9 MB
Total View : 3190 Views
DOWNLOAD

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It ha