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Feminism and the New Democracy
Resiting the Political
Edited by:
- Jodi Dean - Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA
February 1997 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This wide-ranging book responds to and moves beyond recent debates about the relationship between feminism and politics to offer a vision for the future of feminist theory. Leading figures have combined to offer a broad framework through which to articulate a `new democracy' - one that transgresses the traditional oppositions of equality and difference, sex and gender, essential and constructed, to view the `political' as complex, layered and relational.
Issues addressed include: gender, ethnicity, culture and sexual orientation, always embracing the multiple terrains and spaces produced by politics.
Introduction
`Siting/Citing/Sighting the New Democracy'
PART ONE: NATIONAL VICTIMS
Kathleen B Jones
`Flowers from the Volcano'
Zillah Eisenstein
Feminism of the North and West for Export
Kate Mehuron
Exilic Affinities
Karen Engle and Ranjana Khanna
Forgotten History
Renata Salecl
See No Evil, Speak No Evil
PART TWO: PRACTICISING COALITIONS
Nancy Fraser
Equality, Difference and Democracy
Manisha Desai
Constructing/Deconstructing `Women'
Shane Phelan
(Be)Coming Out
Lee Quinby
Genealogical Feminism
PART THREE: BODILY LOCATIONS
Patricia J Williams
Spare Parts, Family Values, Old Children, Cheap
Anna Marie Smith
The Regulation of Lesbian Sexuality through Erasure
Shannon Bell
Performing Theory
PART FOUR: DEMOCRATIC REFLECTIONS
Drucilla Cornell
Gender Hierarchy, Equality, and the Possibility of Democracy
Patricia S Mann
Musing as a Feminist in a Postfeminist Era
Jodi Dean
The Reflective Solidarity of Democratic Feminism
