Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment

by Marilyn Friedman (Editor)

Overview

The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women's citizenship in various parts of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198040583
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/19/2006
Series:	Studies in Feminist Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	404 KB

About the Author

Marilyn Friedman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University and author of Autonomy, Gender, Politics (OUP 2002).

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction: The Linguistic Turn1. Feminism and the Sublime2. The Kantian Sublime: A Story in Two Paradoxes3. The Postmodern Sublime4. The Stakes of Feminism and the Feminist Postmodern5. Interlude: Postmodern Goods (Sublime Experience in Feminist Celebrations of Pornography)6. Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism (What's Wrong with Discursive Bodies?)7. Foundations for a Feminist Sublime8. The Liberatory Sublime9. The Natural SublimeConclusion

Editorial Reviews

"A noteworthy contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on gender and citizenship."—Shelley Wilcox, Feminism and Philosophy

"Both a first rate addition to primary research as well as to critical work in the field. The question of citizenship and gender in particular will become more relevant and pressing as the EU expands and questions of gender parity come to the foreground in the aging developed nations of the West. This is an important work."—Eduardo Mendieta, SUNY Stony Brook

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