Format:
1 online resource (251 pages)
ISBN:
9781400827350
Content:
Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism does not reveal--the interests of gays and lesbians to be sure, but also those of men, and of constituencies and values beyond the realm of sex and gender--we might need to take a break from feminism.Halley also invites feminism to abandon its uncritical relationship to its own power. Feminists are, in many areas of social and political life, partners in governance. To govern responsibly, even on behalf of women, Halley urges, feminists should try taking a break from their own presuppositions.Halley offers a genealogy of various feminisms and of gay, queer, and trans theories as they split from each other in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. All these incommensurate theories, she argues, enrich thinking on the left not despite their break from each other but because of it. She concludes by examining legal cases to show how taking a break from feminism can change your very perceptions of what's at stake in a decision and liberate you to decide it anew.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: Taking a Break from Feminism -- The Argument -- My Complete and Total Lack of Objectivity -- Taxonomies and Terms -- m/f, m 〉 f, and Carrying a Brief for f -- Governance Feminism -- Feminism, Sexual and Reproductive -- A Sex Lexicon -- Convergentism and Divergentism -- A Story of Sexual-Subordination Feminism and Its Others -- Liberation and Responsibility -- PART TWO: The Political/Theoretical Struggle over Taking a Break -- Before the Break: Some Feminist Priors -- Power Feminism -- Cultural Feminism -- Liberal Feminism -- Convergentist and Divergentist Hybrid Feminism -- The Break -- Gay Identity/Feminism/Queer Theory -- Receiving French Social Theory -- The Split, from Feminism and within It -- Feminism from Its Outside: Queer Theory by Men -- Feminism and Its Others -- Feminist "Paralysis" -- 1990-2000: From Political to Ethical Feminism -- 1990-95: Getting to Deadlock -- Around 1993: Mapping Feminism and Queer Theory -- 1998: Trans Theory Splits While Staying in Place -- PART THREE: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism -- Taking a Break to Decide (I) -- The Costs of "Making Difference Costless" -- Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services -- The Costs and Benefits of Taking a Break from Feminism -- The Costs -- The Benefits -- Taking a Break to Decide (II) -- Twyman v. Twyman -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691127378
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691127378
Additional Edition:
Print version Split Decisions : How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
Language:
English
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