Bell, Vikki. 1999. Feminist Imagination: Genealogies in Feminist Theory. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0803979710 [Book]

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Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the `race' trials of the twentieth century. The book looks at: the 'directionlessness' of contemporary feminist thought; the question of essentialism and embodiment; the racial tensions in the work of Simone de Beauvoir; the totalitarian character in Hannah Arendt; the 'mimetic Jew' and the concept of mimesis in the work of Judith Butler.

Vikki Bell provides a compelling rethinking of feminist theory as bound up with attempts to understand oppression outside a focus on 'women'. She affirms feminism as a site and mode of making these connections

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Date:	1999
Item ID:	13504
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2015 10:16
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2017 14:14
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13504

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