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Split decisions : how and why to take a break from feminism /

Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halley, Janet E., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Part One Taking a Break from Feminism
  • The argument
  • My complete and total lack of objectivity
  • Taxonomies and terms
  • A story of sexual-subordination feminism and its others
  • Liberation and Rrsponsibility
  • Part Two The Political/Theoretical Struggle over Taking a Break
  • Before the break: some feminist priors
  • Power feminism
  • Cultural feminism
  • Liberal feminism
  • Convergentist and divergentist hybrid feminism
  • The break
  • Gay identity/feminism/queer theory
  • Receiving French social theory
  • The split, from feminism and within It
  • Feminism from its outside: queer theory by men
  • Feminism and its others
  • Feminist "paralysis"
  • 1990-2000: from political to ethical feminism
  • 1990-95: getting to deadlock
  • Around 1993: mapping feminism and queer theory
  • 1998: trans theory splits while staying in place
  • Part Three How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
  • Taking a break to decide (I)
  • The costs and benefits of taking a break from feminism
  • The costs getting rid of feminism
  • The benefits
  • Taking a break to decide (II).