Feminism as Critique Essays on the Politics of Gender in Late-Capitalist Society
by Benhabib, Seyla; Cornell, DrucillaEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-08
Publisher(s): Polity
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Summary
This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the Marxist-feminist tradition. The essays range from Marx to Foucault and go beyond them to offer genuine advances in the way social and political life can be reconceptualized in the light of feminist critique. This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the Marxist-feminist tradition. The essays range from Marx to Foucault and go beyond them to offer genuine advances in the way social and political life can be reconceptualized in the light of feminist critique.
Author Biography
Seyla Benhabib has authored Critique, Norm, and Utopia, and is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is author of
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Beyond the Politics of Gender | |
| Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic | |
| What's Critical about Critical Theory? - The Case of Habermas and Gender | |
| Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory | |
| The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Feminist Theory | |
| Women, Success, and Civil Society: Submission to, or Subversion of, the Achievement Principle | |
| Disciplining Women: Michel Foucault and the Power of Feminist Discourse | |
| Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Witting, and Foucault | |
| Feminism, Negativity, Intersubjectivity | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
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