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'Am I That Name?' Denise Riley

'Am I That Name?' By Denise Riley

'Am I That Name?' by Denise Riley


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Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of women in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social.

'Am I That Name?' Summary

'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History by Denise Riley

Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of women in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, Riley argues, have had no choice but to play out this indeterminacy of women. This is made plain in their oscillations, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality and of difference. To fully recognize the ambiguity of the category of women is, she contends, a necessary condition for an effective feminist political philosophy.

'Am I That Name?' Reviews

'A classic of feminist intellectual history. Am I That Name? is a sort of Anglo-American end of innocence for anyone who tries to speak of 'women.' Riley makes the word run, since she cannot make it stand still. She offers a history of how feminism has faced its paradoxical core.' - Voice Literary Supplement

Essential reading for philosophers, historians, and feminist theorists.' - History Review of Books

About Denise Riley

DENISE RILEY teaches at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has also held teaching posts at Brown University and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her most recent books are The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony and Selected Poems.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Does a Sex have a History? - Progresses of the Soul - 'The Social', 'Women', and Sociological Feminism - The Womanly Vote - Bodies, Identities, Feminisms - Select Bibliography

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NPB9780333346129
9780333346129
0333346122
'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History by Denise Riley
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
1988-10-28
126
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