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DESTABILIZING THEORY CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST DEBATES
EDITED BY MICHELE BARRETT & ANNE PHILLIPS
Destabilizing Theory
Destabilizing Theory Contemporary Feminist Debates
Edited by
Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips
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Stanford University Press Stanford, California
1992
Stanford University Press Stanford, California This collection and Introduction © 1992 Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips, each chapter copyright the author Originating publisher: Polity Press, Cambridge in association with Blackwell Publishers, Oxford First published in the U.S.A. by Stanford University Press, 1992 Printed in Great Britain Cloth ISBN 0-8047-2030-4 Paper ISBN 0-8047-2031-2 LC 91-67234 This book is printed on acid-free paper
Contents
List of Plates List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements
vi vii ix t
1
Introduction
1
Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips 2
Universal Pretensions in Political Thought
10
Anne Phillips 3
Post-Post-Modernism? Theorizing Social Complexity
31
Sylvia Walby 4
‘Women’s Interests’ and the Post-Structuralist State
53
Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson 5
Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience
74
Chandra Talpade Mohanty 6
Sexual Practice and Changing Lesbian Identities
93
Biddy Martin 7
Power, Bodies and Difference
120
Moira Gatens 8
Painting, Feminism, History
138
Griselda Pollock 9
The Politics of Translation
177
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 10 Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis
201
Michele Barrett Index
220
List of Plates
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