Turning Operations
Subtitle: Feminism, Arendt, Politics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415932448
Subjects: Feminism; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Political Theory; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Gender Studies; Political Ideologies - General; Contributions in political science; Political Science / General; Feminism & Feminist Theory; History & Theory - General; Arendt, Hannah; Contributions in political sci; Democracy; Feminist theory; Philosophy; Political Science
First sentence: In Margaret Atwood's powerful novel The Handmaid's Tale (1986) the heroine Offred, a member of a new class of "two-legged wombs" in a tyrannous dystopian society, often reminds herself that "Context is all."