Bad Objects Essays Popular and Unpopular by Naomi Schor PAPERBACK 9780822316930

Bad ObjectsEssays Popular and Unpopular\nAuthor(s): Naomi Schor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822316930, 978-0822316930\nSynopsis\nBad objects are a contrarians delight. In this volume, leading French feminist theorist and literary critic Naomi Schor revisits some of feminist theorys most widely discredited objects, essentialism and universalism, with surprising results. Bilingual and bicultural, she reveals the national character of contemporary theories that are usually received as beyond borders, while making a strong argument for feminist theorys specific claims to universalism.\nWritten in a distinctive personal and self-reflective mode, this collection offers new unpublished work and brings together for the first time some of Schors best-known and most influential essays. These engagements with Anglo-American feminist theory, Freud and psychoanalytic theory, French poststructuralists such as Bar.