| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) |
| Contents |
1 Introduction -- 2 Theorizing Feminism -- 3 Race, Religion, and Gender -- 4 Feminist Whiteness -- 5 Resisting Whiteness, Claiming Feminism -- 6 Toward a Feminist Ethic of Responsibility -- 7 Conclusion. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"For more than two decades Islamic veils, niqabs, burkinis, have been the object of intense public scrutiny and legal regulations in many Western countries, especially in Europe, and feminists have been actively engaged on both sides of the debates: defending ardently strict prohibitions to ensure Muslim women's emancipation, or, by contrast, promoting accommodation in the name of women's religious agency and a more inclusive feminist movement. These recent developments have unfolded in a context of rising right-wing populism in Europe and have fueled "femonationalism", i.e. the instrumentalization of women's rights for xenophobic agendas. This book proposes to explore this contemporary troubled context for feminism, its current divisions and its future. It investigates how these changes have transformed contemporary feminist movements, intersectionality politics, and the feminist collective subject, and how feminists have been enrolled in the femonationalist project or, conversely, have resisted it in two contexts: France and Québec. It provides new empirical data on contemporary feminist activists, as well as a critical normative argument about the subject and future of feminism. It makes a contribution to intersectionality theory by reflecting on the dynamics of convergence and difference between race and religion. At the normative level, the book provides an original addition to vivid debates in feminist political theory and philosophy on the subject of feminism. It argues that feminism is better understood not as centered around an identity -women -, but around what it calls a feminist ethic of responsibility, which foregrounds a pragmatist moral approach to the feminist project"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020). |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lépinard, Éléonore. Feminist trouble. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780190077150 (DLC) 2019034419 |
| ISBN |
9780190077181 electronic publication |
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0190077182 electronic publication |
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9780190077174 electronic book |
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0190077174 electronic book |
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9780190077198 electronic book |
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0190077190 electronic book |
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9780190077150 hardcover |
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9780190077167 paperback |
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