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Feminism as Critique

Essays on the Politics of Gender in Late-Capitalist Society

Benhabib, Seyla / Cornell, Drucilla

Feminist Perspectives

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1. Edition September 1987
208 Pages, Softcover
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ISBN: 978-0-7456-0366-7
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This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together
for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the
Marxist-feminist tradition. The essays range from Marx to Foucault
and go beyond them to offer genuine advances in the way social and
political life can be reconceptualized in the light of feminist
critique.

This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together
for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the
Marxist-feminist tradition. The essays range from Marx to Foucault
and go beyond them to offer genuine advances in the way social and
political life can be reconceptualized in the light of feminist
critique.

1. Introduction: Beyond the Politics of Gender: Seyla Benhabib and
Drucilla Cornell.

2. Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic:
Linda Nicholson.

3. What's Critical about Critical Theory? - The Case of Habermas
and Gender: Nancy Fraser.

4. Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of
Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory: Iris Marion
Young.

5. The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan
Controversy and Feminist Theory: Seyla Benhabib.

6. Women, Success, and Civil Society: Submission to, or
Subversion of, the Achievement Principle: Maria Markus.

7. Disciplining Women: Michel Foucault and the Power of Feminist
Discourse: Isaac D. Balbus.

8. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Witting, and
Foucault: Judith Butler.

9. Feminism, Negativity, Intersubjectivity: Drucilla Cornell and
Adam Thurschwell.

Notes on Contributors.
Seyla Benhabib has authored Critique, Norm, and Utopia, and is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is author of

S. Benhabib, Harvard University; D. Cornell, University of Pennsylvania