Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought
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Appraises the relationship between contemporary feminism and Julia Kristeva, a major figure in Continental thought
- Offers a detailed assessment of the diverse feminist responses to Kristeva's key ideas
- Demonstrates how feminism's troubled relations with Kristeva can only be understood by attending to the plurality and heterogeneity of contemporary feminist positions
- Elucidates the fault-lines that run through contemporary feminism and it clarifies the anxiety that Kristeva's ideas generate amongst her feminist critics
Julia Kristeva is an important and influential figure within contemporary Continental thought. Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought is an engaging appraisal of the complex relationship between Kristeva and feminist theory. Drawing in particular on her recent writings on revolt, female genius and freedom, Schippers makes a case for her significant contribution to a feminist project that is sympathetic to her account of fluid subjectivity, her critique of identity politics and the deeply ethical orientation of her work.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Kristeva and Feminism: A Critical Encounter; 2. Crisis, Revolt, Intimacy; 3. Corporeal Ethics: Between Violence and Forgiveness; 4. The Singularity of Genius; 5. Towards a Philosophy of Freedom?; Bibliography; Index.