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Postmodern feminism is a branch of feminism that opposes a universal female subject. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Drawing on postmodern philosophy , postmodern feminism questions traditional ideas about gender, identity, and power, while emphasizing the socially constructed and fluid nature of these concepts.
Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory. Judith Butler argues that sex, not just gender, is constructed through language. [43] In their 1990 book, Gender Trouble, they draw on and critique the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan.
Feminism portal; This category is for postmodern and post-structuralist feminists. Pages in category "Postmodern feminists"
This was also the beginning of the affiliation of postmodernism with feminism and multiculturalism. [62] The art critic Craig Owens , in particular, not only made the connection to feminism explicit, but went so far as to claim feminism for postmodernism wholesale, [ 63 ] a broad claim resisted by even many sympathetic feminists such as Nancy ...
Mary Joe Frug (née Gaw; 1941 – April 4, 1991) was a professor at New England Law Boston, and a leading feminist legal scholar. She is considered a forerunner of legal postmodern feminist theory. Much of her work was collected in the posthumously-published book, Postmodern Legal Feminism. She is the author of the casebook Women and the Law. [1]
Postfeminism (alternatively rendered as post-feminism) is an alleged decrease in popular support for feminism from the 1990s onwards. [1] [2] [3] It can be considered a critical way of understanding the changed relations between feminism, femininity and popular culture.
Pages in category "Postmodern feminism" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Chela Sandoval (born July 31, 1956), associate professor of Chicana Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, [1] is a noted theorist of postcolonial feminism and third world feminism. Beginning with her 1991 pioneering essay 'U.S.