The feminine subject

By Susan J. Hekman

Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE, Women's rights, History, Hq1190 .h45 2014, Historia, Civil Rights, Filosofer, Radical feminism, Filosofische aspecten, Feminist theory, Théorie féministe, Liberalism, Marxism, 305.4201, Radikalfeminsm, Feminstisk teori, Intersektionalitet, Feministisk teori, Féminisme, Postmodernism, Feminism, Feminismus, Intersectionality, Kvinnors rättigheter, Philosophers, Political Freedom & Security, Vrouwen

Description: "In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define "woman" as an equal human being in our philosophical and political tradition. Her effort to redefine "woman" outside these parameters set feminist theory on a path of radical transformation. The feminist theorists who wrote in the wake of Beauvoir's work followed that path."--back cover.