Line Drawings : : Defining Women through Feminist Practice /

Line Drawings : : Defining Women through Feminist Practice / / Cressida Heyes.

At the heart of feminist theory lies the seemingly intractable issue of essentialism. Feminism has thus far failed to transcend critiques of essentialism and currently offers only two inadequate positions against it. One response reifies the category "women," representing the experience of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Heyes, Cressida,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledaments
  • Introduction: Philosophy and Purity
  • 1. Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Theory
  • 2. Feminist Method and Generalizing about Women
  • 3. Philosophical Investigations (in a Feminist Voice)
  • 4. "Look and See": Gilligan and Feminist Research
  • 5. Between Theory and Practice: MacKinnon and Feminist Activism
  • Conclusion: "Back to the Rough Ground!"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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