Woman : : History and Critique of a Polemical Concept / / Paola Rudan.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; Volume 264
• VerfasserIn: Rudan, Paola,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 264.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 pages)

"The book follows the movements of the concept of "woman" from the Early modern to the post-colonial age, through the words of women who challenged its patriarchal definition. The concept of "woman" is doubly polemical. It affirms sexual difference as political difference, while denying the universal character of modern political concepts which represent the unity of the political and social order, exposing its fundamental division. At the same time, "woman" is a concept marked by differences - of race, class, culture - that continually redetermine its content. To make the history of the concept of "woman" is thus to affirm a different perspective on history itself, a partial perspective that lays the groundwork for the feminist critique of the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Preface: A fracture in history -- On the threshold of a new order -- The social production of difference -- A global part.