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'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History

'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History

Riley, Denise

Hardcover

Series: Language, Discourse, Society

General Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0333346122
ISBN13: 9780333346129
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 28 1988
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of women in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, Riley argues, have had no choice but to play out this indeterminacy of women. This is made plain in their oscillations, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality and of difference. To fully recognize the ambiguity of the category of women is, she contends, a necessary condition for an effective feminist political philosophy.

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