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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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For Johnson, feminism must recognize itself as a humanism in order to avoid certain theoretical quagmires. [The argument] is extremely provocative, and even, I would say, necessary. This book is sure to be controversial and of interest to a wide audience in feminist theory. I know of no other treatment of feminism and humanism that is so clear, cogent, and systematic. Judith Grant University of... Read more
Introduction: the feminism that dare not speak its name -- Feminism and humanism -- The antinomies of the Age of Enlightenment -- Quest for the self: feminism’s appropriation of romanticism -- Freedom and the encumbered self: feminism’s changing relations with liberalism -- Feminism and critique: from Marx to Habermas -- Feminist alternatives and postmodernism -- Conclusion
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Pauline Johnson
