Opening Out: Feminism for Today
About the Book Series
An exciting series offering an invaluable range of books which transgress disciplinary boundaries, using the insights of contemporary feminist theory to analyse present conflicts and the histories that shaped them.
Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race
1st Edition
By Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
August 11, 2000
Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. Race is often seen to be a social construction. Nevertheless, we continue to deploy race thinking in our everyday life as a way of telling people apart visually. How do subjects become raced? Is it common sense ...
The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Obioma Nnaemeka
January 06, 1997
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist ...
Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought
1st Edition
By Verena Andermatt Conley
December 26, 1996
Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness - or non-awareness - in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today's concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50s...
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
1st Edition
By Renata Salecl
August 16, 1994
The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political ...
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
1st Edition
By Val Plumwood
January 28, 1994
Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. ...
History After Lacan
1st Edition
By Teresa Brennan
November 30, 1993
Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. Starting from this controversial premiss, Teresa Brennan tells the story of a social psychosis. She begins by recovering Lacan's neglected theory of history which argued that we are in the grip of a psychotic's era which began in the seventeenth ...
The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy
1st Edition
By Juliet Flower MacCannell
June 27, 1991
The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the ...