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" Rethinking contemporary feminist politics / "
Jonathan Dean
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BL
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711029
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b533218
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| Main Entry
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Dean, Jonathan,1982-
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Rethinking contemporary feminist politics /\ Jonathan Dean
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York, NY :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010
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Gender and politics
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ix, 226 pages ;; 22 cm
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0230238920
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: 9780230238923
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index
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| Contents
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Mapping the Ǹew Feminist Politics' -- Outline of the book -- 1. Current Developments in Feminist Politics -- Feminist temporalities 1: Decline and deradicalisation -- Feminist temporalities 2: Ǹew feminisms' and feminist re-emergence -- Feminist temporalities 3: Post-feminism -- Feminist spatialities 1: Transnational feminisms -- Feminist spatialities 2: State feminism -- Feminist radicalities -- 2. Rethinking Feminist Radicalism -- Why radicalism? -- Mapping the terrain: Pòst-foundational' challenges to polities -- Laclau: The role of articulation and equivalence -- Arendt and Zerilli on politics and t̀he social' -- Feminism and political imagination -- Synthesising Laclau and Zerilli -- Discourse theory and (feminist) political analysis -- Conclusion: Rethinking ràdicality' -- 3. The Fawcett Society: The End of the Road for Equality Feminism? -- À jolly good chat': Fawcett's ethos and historical background -- The question of women's political participation and representation -- The politics of childcare and work-life balance -- Fawcett's rebranding and its aftermath -- Theorising Fawcett's rebranding -- Fawcett's new feminist agenda: Some critical remarks -- Conclusion -- 4. Women's Aid: Professionalised Radicalism? -- Women's Aid: Origins and historical background -- The present-day Women's Aid: A brief overview -- Women's Aid: Success and professionalisation -- Domestic violence, immigration and anti-racism -- Domestic violence as a fìgure of the newly thinkable' -- Critical assessments: A drift towards the ǹew managerialism'? -- Conclusion -- 5. The F-word: Cultural Politics and Third-Wave Feminism -- Feminism and the Internet -- The F-word: Diversity, inclusiveness and reasserting feminism -- Cultural politics and feminist individualism -- Anger, affect and resistance: Contesting feminist depoliticisation -- Negotiating the third wave -- Generational disidentifications, or, who's afraid of third-wave feminism? -- Concluding reflections and critical comments -- Conclusion: The Consequences of Optimism -- Contemporary feminism and political optimism -- Optimism, pessimism and pòst-politics' -- Theorising political optimism -- The (re)turn to Gramsci
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This text puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of feminist decline and re-emergence, it draws on poststructuralist political theory to assess current forms of activism in the UK and present a provocative account of recent developments in feminist politics
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Feminism
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Feminism-- Political aspects
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Feminism-- Political aspects-- Great Britain
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Feminism-- Great Britain
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HQ1236.D43 2010
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