- Title
- Introduction: feminism, Bourdieu and after
- Creator
- Adkins, Lisa
- Relation
- Feminism After Bourdieu
- Relation
- Sociological Review Monographs
- Relation
- http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/more_reviews.asp?ref=9781405123952&site=1
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2004
- Description
- How might Bourdieu’s social philosophy and social theory be of use to feminism? And how might it relate to – or possibly even fruitfully reframe – the ongoing problematics and current theoretical issues of feminism? It is very well recognized that Bourdieu’s social theory had relatively little to say about women or gender (although see Bourdieu, 2001) with most of his writings framed preeminently in terms of issues of class. Yet the premise of this volume is that this substantive omission should not be taken to mean that Bourdieu’s theoretical apparatus does not necessarily have relevance for feminism. Other key contemporary social theorists such as Foucault and Habermas have also – substantively speaking – had little to say about women and gender or indeed feminism but this, of course, has not stopped feminists deploying, rethinking and critically developing the theoretical resources offered by these theorists to produce some of the most influential, compelling and productive forms of contemporary feminist theorizing. In this volume contributors will use, critique, critically extend and develop Bourdieu’s social theory to address some of the most pressing issues of our times. And in so doing they will address both ongoing and key contemporary problematics in contemporary feminist theory. These include the problematic of theorizing social agency (and especially the problematic of social versus performative agency); the issue of the relationship of social movements (and especially women’s movements) to social change; the politics of cultural authorization; the theorization of technological forms of embodiment (that is the theorization of embodiment post bounded conceptions of the body); the relations of affect to the political; and the articulation of principles of what might be termed a new feminist materialism which goes beyond Bourdieu’s own social logics.
- Subject
- feminism; social theory; gender; Pierre Bourdieu
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923651
- Identifier
- uon:9779
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781405123952
- Language
- eng
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