The Man Question
Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 1993
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-520-07939-7 (ISBN)
Description
Turning on its head that familiar "woman question", this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation. Ferguson rebukes the sense of coherence contained in patriarchal theory in the name of a voice that both calls upon and challenges that category "woman". Stepping back from the opposition of male and female, she artfully loosens the hold of gender on life and meaning, creating and at the same time deconstructing a women's point of view. Posing the "man question" provides a way not only to view male power and female subordination but also to champion women's experiences, thus destabilizing conventional notions of man and woman.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07939-7 (9780520079397)
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Person
Kathy E. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Hawai'i, and author of The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy and Self, Society and Womankind: The Dialectic of Liberation.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Interpretation and Genealogy in Feminism
Ontologies and Subjectivities
Languages, Histories, Politics
Ironic Convergences and Common Front Politics
2. Male-Ordered Subjectivity
Identity and Desire in Hegel
Feminist Alternatives to the Hegelian Subject
3? Praxis Feminism
Creating Praxis Feminism
Essentialism?
Ironic Interventions
4? Cosmic Feminism
Creating Cosmic Feminism
Kitsch, Appropriation, and Irony
5? Linguistic Feminism
Creating Linguistic Feminism
Kitsch, Irony, and the Traffic In Between
6. Mobile Subjectivities
Tragic Choices, Happy Endings, or Ironic Encounters
Class Encounters of a Third Kind
Ironic Convergences, Coalition Politics, and Kitsch
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Interpretation and Genealogy in Feminism
Ontologies and Subjectivities
Languages, Histories, Politics
Ironic Convergences and Common Front Politics
2. Male-Ordered Subjectivity
Identity and Desire in Hegel
Feminist Alternatives to the Hegelian Subject
3? Praxis Feminism
Creating Praxis Feminism
Essentialism?
Ironic Interventions
4? Cosmic Feminism
Creating Cosmic Feminism
Kitsch, Appropriation, and Irony
5? Linguistic Feminism
Creating Linguistic Feminism
Kitsch, Irony, and the Traffic In Between
6. Mobile Subjectivities
Tragic Choices, Happy Endings, or Ironic Encounters
Class Encounters of a Third Kind
Ironic Convergences, Coalition Politics, and Kitsch
Notes
Bibliography
Index