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The Resource Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique, Susan Lurie

Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique, Susan Lurie

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"During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left patriarchal power unquestioned. Developing a feminist model that keeps multiple political forces in view, Lurie returns to three literary feminists from earlier parts of the century: Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Elizabeth Bishop. As Lurie argues, each of these women shows that both resistance to male domination and alliances between different oppositional politics rely on recognizing how power regulates a subject's multiple beliefs." "In her analysis, Lurie traces each author's strategies for revealing and challenging the ways that patriarchal gender ideology profits from what is always plural and contested female subjectivity. Only such an inquiry, Lurie demonstrates, can explain the impasses that have steered poststructuralist feminism away from gender as a category of analysis and can point toward the models necessary for a more complete feminist critique of patriarchal power."--BOOK JACKET
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
192 p.
Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction.
  • p. 1
  • Ch. 1.
  • Poststructuralist Feminist Subjects.
  • p. 13
  • Ch. 2.
  • Antiracist Rhetorics and the Female Subject: The Trials of Zora Neale Hurston.
  • p. 44
  • Ch. 3.
  • Women's Development and "Composite" Subjectivity: Feminism and Social Evolution in Ellen Glasgow.
  • p. 78
  • Ch. 4.
  • "Caught in a Skein of Voices": Feminism and Colonialism in Elizabeth Bishop.
  • p. 119
  • Epilogue: Toward a Poststructuralist Feminist Counterhegemony.
  • p. 155
  • Notes.
  • p. 161
  • Works Cited.
  • p. 177
  • Index.
  • p. 187
Isbn
9780822319993
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Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique
Title
Unsettled subjects
Title remainder
restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique
Statement of responsibility
Susan Lurie
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left patriarchal power unquestioned. Developing a feminist model that keeps multiple political forces in view, Lurie returns to three literary feminists from earlier parts of the century: Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Elizabeth Bishop. As Lurie argues, each of these women shows that both resistance to male domination and alliances between different oppositional politics rely on recognizing how power regulates a subject's multiple beliefs." "In her analysis, Lurie traces each author's strategies for revealing and challenging the ways that patriarchal gender ideology profits from what is always plural and contested female subjectivity. Only such an inquiry, Lurie demonstrates, can explain the impasses that have steered poststructuralist feminism away from gender as a category of analysis and can point toward the models necessary for a more complete feminist critique of patriarchal power."--BOOK JACKET
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Lurie, Susan
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Feminist literary criticism
  • Feminism and literature
  • Women and literature
  • Minority women in literature
  • Literature
Label
Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique, Susan Lurie
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction.
  • p. 1
  • Ch. 1.
  • Poststructuralist Feminist Subjects.
  • p. 13
  • Ch. 2.
  • Antiracist Rhetorics and the Female Subject: The Trials of Zora Neale Hurston.
  • p. 44
  • Ch. 3.
  • Women's Development and "Composite" Subjectivity: Feminism and Social Evolution in Ellen Glasgow.
  • p. 78
  • Ch. 4.
  • "Caught in a Skein of Voices": Feminism and Colonialism in Elizabeth Bishop.
  • p. 119
  • Epilogue: Toward a Poststructuralist Feminist Counterhegemony.
  • p. 155
  • Notes.
  • p. 161
  • Works Cited.
  • p. 177
  • Index.
  • p. 187
Control code
l80097003845
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
192 p.
Isbn
9780822319993
Lccn
lc97003845
Label
Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique, Susan Lurie
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction.
  • p. 1
  • Ch. 1.
  • Poststructuralist Feminist Subjects.
  • p. 13
  • Ch. 2.
  • Antiracist Rhetorics and the Female Subject: The Trials of Zora Neale Hurston.
  • p. 44
  • Ch. 3.
  • Women's Development and "Composite" Subjectivity: Feminism and Social Evolution in Ellen Glasgow.
  • p. 78
  • Ch. 4.
  • "Caught in a Skein of Voices": Feminism and Colonialism in Elizabeth Bishop.
  • p. 119
  • Epilogue: Toward a Poststructuralist Feminist Counterhegemony.
  • p. 155
  • Notes.
  • p. 161
  • Works Cited.
  • p. 177
  • Index.
  • p. 187
Control code
l80097003845
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
192 p.
Isbn
9780822319993
Lccn
lc97003845

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