Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century

Published by Columbia University Press 2001

Feminist Consequences

Theory for the New Century

Edited by: Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka

In the series Gender and Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.7312/bron11704

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About this book

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women. These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, literature, and representation.

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.

These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, literature, and representation. Contributors include Mieke Bal, Lauren Berlant, Rosi Braidotti, Elisabeth Bronfen, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Beatrice Hanssen, Claire Kahane, Ranjana Khanna, Biddy Martin, Juliet Mitchell, Anita Haya Patterson, and Valerie Smith.

Feminist Consequences, representing the forefront of international feminist thought, marks a new and long-desired stage of feminist criticism where women are themselves making theory rather than reacting to male production.

Author / Editor information

Elisabeth Bronfen is the author, most recently, of The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Misha Kavka has published variously on male hysteria, modernist feminism, and gendered subjectivity in film. Both Bronfen and Kavka teach in the Department of English at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Reviews

The book's range is impressive, and so is [Elisabeth] Bronfen's totalizing ambition to make connections across time and space...

Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University:
Speaks to the continued vitality of feminism... a commitment to self-reflexivity and an aversion to dogmatic thinking.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Misha Kavka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Part 1. Whatever Happened to Feminism?
1. Psychoanalysis and Feminism at the Millennium Juliet Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (excerpt) Jane Gallop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Gender and Representation Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4. Whatever Happened to Feminist Theory? Beatrice Hanssen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Part 2. The Ethics of Affect
5. Ethical Ambiguities and Specters of Colonialism: Futures of Transnational Feminism Ranjana Khanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics Lauren Berlant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Dark Mirrors:A Feminist Reflection on Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Metaphor Claire Kahane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8. Class and Gender in Narratives of Passing Valerie Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part 3. The Pleasures of Agency
9. Redressing Grievances: Cross-Dressing Pleasure with the Law Elisabeth Bronfen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10. Contingencies of Pleasure and Shame: Jamaican Women’s Poetry Anita Haya Patterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
11. Fierce Pussies and Lesbian Avengers: Dyke Activism Meets Celebrity Culture Ann Cvetkovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Part 4. Where to Feminism?
12. Enfolding Feminism Mieke Bal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
13. Success and Its Failures Biddy Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
14. Becoming-Woman: Rethinking the Positivity of Difference Rosi Braidotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
15. The End of Sexual Difference? Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
16. A Return for the Future: Interview with Drucilla Cornell Drucilla Cornell, Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 472
Illustrations
- Images: 15
- Other: 15 halftones

eBook

Published: February 14, 2001
ISBN: 9780231530149