Name: Split Decisions: How and why to Take a Break From Feminism (en Inglés)
Price: 45.23 EUR
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Author: Janet Halley
ISBN: 9780691136325

portada Split Decisions: How and why to Take a Break From Feminism (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

Janet Halley

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

402

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0691136327

ISBN13

9780691136325

N° edición

Categorías

Conducta sexual

Split Decisions: How and why to Take a Break From Feminism (en Inglés)

Janet Halley (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Split Decisions: How and why to Take a Break From Feminism (en Inglés)"

Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism does not reveal--the interests of gays and lesbians to be sure, but also those of men, and of constituencies and values beyond the realm of sex and gender--we might need to take a break from feminism. Halley also invites feminism to abandon its uncritical relationship to its own power. Feminists are, in many areas of social and political life, partners in governance. To govern responsibly, even on behalf of women, Halley urges, feminists should try taking a break from their own presuppositions. Halley offers a genealogy of various feminisms and of gay, queer, and trans theories as they split from each other in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. All these incommensurate theories, she argues, enrich thinking on the left not despite their break from each other but because of it. She concludes by examining legal cases to show how taking a break from feminism can change your very perceptions of what's at stake in a decision and liberate you to decide it anew.