1st Edition

Baudrillard's Challenge A Feminist Reading

By Victoria Grace Copyright 2000
222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory.  Drawing on the full range of Baudrillard's writings the author engages in a debate with: * the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler... Read more
Acknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  Introduction  1. Ideologies of Meaning and Value  2. The Fictions of Identity, Power and Desire  3. Simulated 'Difference', Simulated 'Politics'  4. Hyperreal Genders  5. The Inevitable Seduction  6. Feminism and the Power Dissolution  Notes  Bibliography

Biography

Victoria Grace