Feminist social theory and female body experience are the twin themes of Iris Marion Young's twelve outstanding essays written over the past decade and brought together here. Her contributions to social theory raise critical questions about women and citizenship, the relations of capitalism and women's oppression, and the differences between a feminist theory that emphasizes women's difference and one that assumes a gender-neutral humanity.
Loosely following a phenomenological method of description, Young's essays on female embodiment discuss female movement, pregnancy, clothing, and the breasted body. In an introduction that situates her work in the context of shifts in feminist theory and politics over the past decade, Young emphasizes the rootedness of her theorizing in a dedicated and seasoned political activism.
- ISBN10 0253205972
- ISBN13 9780253205971
- Publish Date 22 December 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 228
- Language English