Poststructural Feminism
Summary | Structuralism, as it was founded in early 20th c. linguistics and anthropology, makes binary opposition foundational to a study of culture, and the male/female opposition is key among such binaries. The critique of such binary oppositions found in poststructuralism thus lends itself naturally to feminist philosophical approaches. Poststructural feminism explores alliances with - among other movements and thinkers - Derridean deconstruction, Foucauldian analyses of power and biopolitics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Deleuzian philosophy. Putting gender at center stage, it is interested in critiquing and displacing subject/object relations of all kinds, including those of race, economics and class, transnational and postcolonial dynamics, and bodily ability. It thrives in dynamic interaction with existential, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, historicist, Marxist, and materialist approaches. |
Key works | Key texts in poststructural feminism include the postcolonial Marxist deconstructive feminism of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, for which see Spivak 1993, Drucilla Cornell's classic Cornell 1992 which explores deconstruction's relationship to the ethico-political projects of feminism, and Judith Butler's poststructuralist critique of gender: Butler 1989. A foundational text which lays out the connections between Marxism, psychoanalytis, and structuralism as a starting point for feminist critique is Rubin 1975:Gayle Rubin's The Traffic in Women, while Irigaray 1985 treats similar themes in a different context. For a range of readings in psychoanalytic poststructural feminism see Brennan 1989. Anzaldúa 1987 is a fine example of a poststructural feminist approach to lived experience, while Haraway 1991 gives a classic feminist deconstruction of the boundary between nature and technology. For a Foucauldian approach to feminism see McLaren 2002. For a Deleuzian approach see Braidotti 1995. |
Introductions | Cheah 1996 : Review of two key books: Butler 1993 and Grosz 1994 grappling with the issue of materiality in a feminist poststructuralist context. Fuss 1989: Poststructuralist critiques of essentialist feminism. Cixous 1976: Classic work of poststructuralist feminism. Feder et al 1997: Collection of articles discussing relationship between Derrida and Feminism. Ziarek 2001 Comprehensive introduction to issues of ethics and politics from feminist poststructural/postmodern viewpoint. |
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