Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory

Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory offers a clear and accessible introduction to poststructuralist theory, focusing on questions of language, subjectivity and power.

Key book features:

• Classic text.
• Now updated and revised.
• New final chapter on feminism and postmodernism.

Acknowledgements.

Preface to the Second Edition.

1. Feminism and Theory.

2. Principles of Poststructuralism.

3. Feminist Poststructuralism and Psychoanalysis.

4. Language and Subjectivity.

5. Discourse, Power and Resistance.

6. Feminist Critical Practice.

7. Feminism and Postmodernism.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Chris Weedon with Glenn Jordan she is co-author of Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World, also available from Blackwell Publishers. Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory offers a clear and accessible introduction to poststructuralist theory, focusing on questions of language, subjectivity and power. It examines how we might use poststructuralism to theorize gender, identity and experience in patriarchal societies. Drawing on the work of Saussure, Derrida, Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, and Foucault, it argues for a form of feminist poststructuralism that can help bring about social change.

This new edition has been revised and updated and includes an additional final chapter on the recent debate about feminism and postmodernism.