Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman

by Mary C. Rawlinson (Editor)

The first-ever compilation of articles that highlights the intersection of Derridean and feminist theories--a work that represents the extensive and diverse response feminist theorists have had to Derrida, particularly to the issues of gender, identity, and the construction of the subject.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 27, 1997

About the author

Mary C. Rawlinson is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. Her publications include works on Hegel, Proust, literature and ethics, bioethics, the critique of rights, and contemporary French philosophy. She is the Editor of The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB), as well as the Co-director of The Irigaray Circle and an Invited Observer to UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee.

Reviews

[nsgna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book contains two outstanding (though dense - heavy on the Lacanian side) essays, one from Ziarek ("From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason") and the other from Drucilla Cornell ("Where Love Begins"). And even if I didn't care much for the rest of the works included here, they make for an interesting compilation -- to say the least.