Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique

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Unsettled subjects : restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique

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restoring feminist politics to poststructuralist critique

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Susan Lurie

Creator

• Lurie, Susan

Subject

• Feminism and literature
• Feminist literary criticism
• Literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Minority women in literature
• Women and literature

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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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction