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DESTABILIZING THEORY CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST DEBATES EDITED BY MICHELE BARRETT & ANNE PHILLIPS Destabilizing Theory Destabilizing Theory Contemporary Feminist Debates Edited by Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips /■ Stanford University Press Stanford, California 1992 Stanford University Press Stanford, California This collection and Introduction © 1992 Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips, each chapter copyright the author Originating publisher: Polity Press, Cambridge in association with Blackwell Publishers, Oxford First published in the U.S.A. by Stanford University Press, 1992 Printed in Great Britain Cloth ISBN 0-8047-2030-4 Paper ISBN 0-8047-2031-2 LC 91-67234 This book is printed on acid-free paper Contents List of Plates vi List of Contributors vii Preface and Acknowledgements ix t 1 Introduction 1 Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips 2 Universal Pretensions in Political Thought 10 Anne Phillips 3 Post-Post-Modernism? Theorizing Social Complexity 31 Sylvia Walby 4 ‘Women’s Interests’ and the Post-Structuralist State 53 Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson 5 Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience 74 Chandra Talpade Mohanty 6 Sexual Practice and Changing Lesbian Identities 93 Biddy Martin 7 Power, Bodies and Difference 120 Moira Gatens 8 Painting, Feminism, History 138 Griselda Pollock 9 The Politics of Translation 177 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 10 Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis 201 Michele Barrett Index 220 List of Plates Plate 1. Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The Painter and his Model, 1917. Paris, Musee National d’Art Moderne. Plate 2. Brassai, Henri Matisse in his Studio. Photograph London, Victoria and Albert Museum. Plate 3. Hans Namuth,/<zc&5orz Pollock at Work, 1950. Photograph New York, Studio Hans Namuth. Plate 4. Ernst Haas, Helen Frankenthaler at Work, 1969. Photograph New York, Studio Ernst Haas. Plate 5. Martin Charles, Gillian Ayres in her Studio, 1988. Photograph Isleworth, Studio Martin Charles. List of Contributors Michele Barrett is Professor of Sociology at City University, London. She is the author of The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault (Polity and Stanford University Press 1991). Women’s Oppression Today (Verso, 1980 and 1988), co-author with Mary McIntosh of The Anti¬ social Family (Verso, 1982 and 1991), and has written and edited other books and papers. At City University she is Head of the Sociology Division in the Department of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Research on Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change. Moira Gatens lectures in philosophy at the Australian National Uni¬ versity. She is the author of Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality (Polity Press and Indiana University Press, 1991). A collection of her essays on gender, corporeality and desire will be published by Routledge in 1993. Her current research concerns philosophies of the body (Spinoza, Nietzsche and Freud) and their relations to theories of ethics. Biddy Martin is Associate Professor of German Studies and Women’s Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Woman and Mod¬ ernity: The (Life) Styles of Lou Andreas-Salome (Cornell University Press, 1991) and has published numerous articles on feminist theory. Chandra Talpade Mohanty teaches Women’s Studies and the Sociology of Education at Oberlin College, and for 1991-92 is the Jane Watson Irwin Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Hamilton College. She has recently co-edited Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991), and is co-editor of a forthcoming reader on Third World Feminisms (Basil Blackwell). She is currently working on a manuscript on feminist theory and the politics of cross cultural analysis. Contributors Vlll Anne Phillips is Professor of Politics at City of London Polytechnic. She is author of Engendering Democracy (Polity Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), and editor of Feminism and Equality (Basil Blackwell and New York University Press, 1987). She is currently working on democracy, citizenship, and the representation of group difference. Griselda Pollock is Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She is co-author with Roszika Parker of Old Mistresses Women, Art & Ideology (Pandora 1981) and Framing Feminism Art & the Women’s Movement (Pandora 1987). She is author of many books and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century culture, cinema and photo¬ graphy, including Vision and Difference Feminism Femininity and the Histories of Art (Routledge 1988). Forthcoming publications include Sexuality and Surveillance Bourgeois Men and Working Women Rout- ledge 1992). She has two children. Rosemary Pringle is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University. She is author of Secretaries Talk: Sexuality, Power and Work (Verso, 1989). She is currently working on gender and masquerades, using case studies from the professions. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is author of In Other Worlds (Routledge, 1987) and translator of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology (Johns Hopkins, 1976). She is currently working on feminism and decolonization. Sylvia Walby is Reader in Sociology at the London School of Econo¬ mics. Books she has authored include Patriarchy at Work (Polity Press, 1986) and Theorizing Patriarchy (Blackwell, 1990), while she was recently co-editor of Out of the Margins: Women’s Studies into the Nineties (Falmer Press, 1991). She is currently working on a book on the history of feminist thought. Sophie Watson is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Sydney University. She is author of Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing (Allen and Unwin, 1988). She is currently co-writing a book Rethinking Social Policy: Sex, Power and Knowledge, and continuing her feminist research in urban studies.
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