Opening Out: Feminism for Today

New and Published Books

1-7 of 7 results in Opening Out: Feminism for Today

1. Desiring Whiteness

   A Lacanian Analysis of Race

   By Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. Race is often seen to be a social construction. Nevertheless, we continue to deploy race thinking in our everyday life as a way of telling people apart visually. How do subjects become raced? Is it common sense...

   Published May 24th 2000 by Routledge
2. The Politics of (M)Othering

   Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature

   Edited by Obioma Nnaemeka

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist...

   Published December 11th 1996 by Routledge
3. Ecopolitics

   The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought

   By Verena Andermatt Conley

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness - or non-awareness - in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today's concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50s...

   Published November 27th 1996 by Routledge
4. The Spoils of Freedom

   Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism

   By Renata Salecl

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political...

   Published July 6th 1994 by Routledge
5. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

   By Val Plumwood

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy....

   Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge
6. History After Lacan

   By Teresa Brennan

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. Starting from this controversial premiss, Teresa Brennan tells the story of a social psychosis. She begins by recovering Lacan's neglected theory of history which argued that we are in the grip of a psychotic's era which began in the seventeenth...

   Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge
7. The Regime of the Brother

   After the Patriarchy

   By Juliet Flower MacCannell

   Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today

   The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the...

   Published June 12th 1991 by Routledge