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100 1 $aAssiter, Alison.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88170005
245 10 $aEnlightened women :$bmodernist feminism in a postmodern age /$cAlison Assiter.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c1996.
263 $a9510
300 $ax, 164 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Flight from Universals --$g2.$tIrigaray, Lacan and Derrida --$g3.$tRealism and Anti-Realism --$g4.$tIrigaray and the Self --$g5.$tFeminist Epistemological Communities --$g6.$tFeminism and Morality --$g7.$tEssentialism and Universalism Revisited --$g8.$tA Critique of Constructivist Accounts of Sexuality.
520 $aIn the opening chapters of her book, Assiter provides a lucid exposition of contemporary postmodern feminism. She analyses the writings of some of its most influential theorists, and places them in the wider context of postmodern and post-structuralist theory as developed, for example, by Lyotard and Derrida. Assiter then develops a citique of the antirealist stance that unites postmodern thinkers and makes a powerful argument for epistemological realism.
520 8 $aIn later chapters, Assiter goes on to outline a 'modernist' feminist epistemology based on communities rather than the individual; she asserts that a version of the humanist subject based on bodily identity can be defended against postmodernist deconstructions; and she demonstrates that we can indeed make claims about women that are universally true. Enlightened Women argues for retaining the distinction between sex and gender and concludes with an alternative reading of the theory of sexuality.
520 8 $aEnlightened Women provides a clear and concise overview of postmodernism and French feminist thought; at the same time it argues, against received opinion, for a partial return to modernist values.
650 0 $aFeminist theory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90002282
650 0 $aPostmodernism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105557
650 0 $aFeminism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047741
852 00 $boff,glx$hHQ1190$i.A87 1996
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