Nothing Mat(t)ers: a Feminist Critiqueof Postmodernism Somer Brodribb Spinifex 1992 Lévi-Strauss tried to convince women that we are spoken, exchanged like words; Lacan tried to teach women we can’t speak, because the phallus is the original signifier; and then Derrida says that it doesn’t matter, it’s just talk. Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Nietzsche: the chant resonates…
Category: Postmodernism
Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse Rosemary Hennessy Routledge Londonand New York 1993 Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking ‘woman’ as a discursively constructed subject. The book looks at the problem of examining critically the social dimensions on which theories of discourse are premised:…
Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism Caroline Ramazanoglu (ed) Routledge London and New York 1993 Up Against Foucault introduces key aspects of Foucault’s work to feminists, in ways which are less abstracted than much of the existing literature in this area. It includes an introduction to Foucault’s terms, and fills…