Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone? (Breaking Feminist Waves)

286 Pages·2010·3.52 MB·English

by  Kimberly Hutchings

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LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
GILLIAN HOWIE, University of Liverpool
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GILLIAN HOWIE is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tai
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Menstruation (Palgrave, 2005); Women and the Divine (Palgrave, 2008); and the ce
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The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism
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HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY AND FEMINIST THOUGHT
Copyright © Kimberly Hutchings and Tuija Pulkkinen, 2010.
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the Feminine in the Time of Hegelian Spirit 153
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Nine Womanlife or Lifework and Psycho-technique:
Woman as the Figure of the Plasticity of
Transcendence 177
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Ten The Gender of Spirit: Hegel’s Moves and Strategies 195
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disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, Breaking Feminist Waves
provides a forum for comparative, historical, and interdisciplinary
work, with special attention to the problems of cultural differences,
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language and representation, embodiment, rights, violence, sexual
economies, and political action. By rethinking feminisms’ history as
well as its present, and by unearthing neglected contributions to fem-
inist theory, this series intends to unlock conversations between fem-
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