The feminine subject
By: Susan Hekman
Publisher: Polity; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780745687841; 9780745687834
Subjects: Feminist theory
Description: "In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define "woman" as an equal human being in our philosophical and political tradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside these parameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation. The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir's work followed that path."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Simone De Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The Feminine Subject; title: Difference I: The "French Feminists"; title: Difference II: Radical Feminism and the Relational Self; title: Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism; title: From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality; title: The Material Subject.