Feminist Politics : Identity, Difference, and Agency by Marie-Claire Belleau ...

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Feminist PoliticsIdentity, Difference, and Agency\nAuthor(s): Deborah Orr, Dianna Taylor, Eileen Kahl, Kathleen Earle, Christa Rainwater, Jutta Weber, Marie-Claire Belleau, Sigal Ben-Porath, Cathryn Bailey, Marlene Benjamin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780742547773, 978-0742547773\nSynopsis\nThe essays in Feminist Politics contest some of the prevailing conceptualizations of identity and difference, as well as the functions of these concepts in feminist political discourse and praxis. Doing so, they amply demonstrate that issues of identity and difference have a central place in contemporary feminist scholarship. The authors of these essays have worked to develop new ways of understanding and living out differences which will both preserve and celebrate them while also fostering the necessary conditions for opening dialogue and forming new coalitions. The intent of these efforts has been to thereb.