‘Am I That Name?’

Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History

By:

Denise Riley

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Language, Discourse, Society

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An attempt to explore the idea that there are historical sedimentations of people into gendered categories, including the asymmetrical distances of both "women" and "men" from changing ideas of the human; the increasing saturation, from the late seventeenth century, of women with their sex; and the nineteenth century elisions between "the social" and "women". It is argued that feminism cannot but play out the inescapable indeterminacy of "women" whether consciously or not, and that this is made plain in its oscillations, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality and of difference. The author maintains that a full recognition of the ambiguity of the category of "women" is not a semantic doubt, but a condition for an effective feminist political philosophy.

Author Biography:

DENISE RILEY teaches at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has also held teaching posts at Brown University and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her most recent books are The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony and Selected Poems.

Release date NZ

October 28th, 1988

Author

Denise Riley

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

VI, 126 p.

Pages

126

Series

Language, Discourse, Society

Dimensions

140x216x8

ISBN-13

9780333346136

Product ID

1692466

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