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Ludic Feminism and After

Teresa L. Ebert
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      Following the equal-rights struggles of the 1960s, feminism became involved in the theoretical problems posed by poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, queer theory, postcolonialism, and Marxism. After years of debate about whether feminism can or should accommodate these other modes of contemporary thought, Ludic Feminism and After provides a way of making a leap forward. Teresa Ebert rethinks such notions as ""pleasure,"" ""essentialism,"" ""performance,"" ""labor,"" ""class,"" ""body,"" and ""difference"" through readings of influential texts by feminists such as Gayatri Spivak, Rigoberta Mench, Donna Haraway, Jane Gallop, Judith Butler, Diana Fuss, and Teresa de Lauretis. She not only engages the theories of Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Baudrillard, but also moves beyond the academic arena to address the ""backlash"" phenomenon and the writings of ""popular"" critics like Camille Paglia. Ebert argues that the crisis of feminist theory in postmodernity is about the very meaning of politics and the possibility for effective social change. The future of feminism and feminist theory, believes Ebert, lies in reclaiming radical knowledge(s) that have been obscured by what she calls ""ludic theory"": the branch of postmodernism that sees politics primarily as a linguistic and textual practice, and focuses on subverting cultural representations of difference. She argues instead for the possibilities of a ""resistance postmodernism"" in feminism: theory grounded in the social struggle over the ""material differences"" of labor and access to economic means and resources. Ebert's provocative and powerful book challenges ludic feminism within the academy, and outlines transformative politics and feminist theory that can address material crises, such as the international trade in young women for prostitution, dowry murders in India, and the genocidal rape in Bosnia. The author seeks to go beyond dominant theories to open a radically new space for an active third wave feminism. Ludic Feminism and After is sure to be influential and controversial. Teresa Ebert is Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Albany.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Teresa L. Ebert EAN: 9780472065769 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1995-12-08 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Feminism and feminist theory, Economic history

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      Following the equal-rights struggles of the 1960s, feminism became involved in the theoretical problems posed by poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, queer theory, postcolonialism, and Marxism. After years of debate about whether feminism can or should accommodate these other modes of contemporary thought, Ludic Feminism and After provides a way of making a leap forward. Teresa Ebert rethinks such notions as ""pleasure,"" ""essentialism,"" ""performance,"" ""labor,"" ""class,"" ""body,"" and ""difference"" through readings of influential texts by feminists such as Gayatri Spivak, Rigoberta Mench, Donna Haraway, Jane Gallop, Judith Butler, Diana Fuss, and Teresa de Lauretis. She not only engages the theories of Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Baudrillard, but also moves beyond the academic arena to address the ""backlash"" phenomenon and the writings of ""popular"" critics like Camille Paglia. Ebert argues that the crisis of feminist theory in postmodernity is about the very meaning of politics and the possibility for effective social change. The future of feminism and feminist theory, believes Ebert, lies in reclaiming radical knowledge(s) that have been obscured by what she calls ""ludic theory"": the branch of postmodernism that sees politics primarily as a linguistic and textual practice, and focuses on subverting cultural representations of difference. She argues instead for the possibilities of a ""resistance postmodernism"" in feminism: theory grounded in the social struggle over the ""material differences"" of labor and access to economic means and resources. Ebert's provocative and powerful book challenges ludic feminism within the academy, and outlines transformative politics and feminist theory that can address material crises, such as the international trade in young women for prostitution, dowry murders in India, and the genocidal rape in Bosnia. The author seeks to go beyond dominant theories to open a radically new space for an active third wave feminism. Ludic Feminism and After is sure to be influential and controversial. Teresa Ebert is Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Albany.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Teresa L. Ebert EAN: 9780472065769 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1995-12-08 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Feminism and feminist theory, Economic history

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