Feminism As Critique: On The Politics Of Gender

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The independent women's movement that emerged in Europe and North AMerica in the last twenty years is restructuring our theoretical tradition. After an initial phase of deconstruction, in which feminist theorists uncovered the gender blindness as well as the gender biases of our intellectual heritage, the task of feminist theroretical reconstruction began. This book comes outof this feminist project. The collection builds on work currently in progress in Europe and North America, invoking critical theory and post-structuralism. Although diverse, the essays in this volum share both a rejection of the liberal conception of the self as a disengaged self or an atomic unencumbered subject, and a conviction that the twentieth century Marxism requires a paradigm shift.