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CONTINENTAL FEMINIST THEORY

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Schools of Thought:

• Marxist Feminist Theory

• Phenomenological, Existentialist and Hermeneutical Feminist Theory

• Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory

• (Post-)Structuralist Feminist Theory

Topics:

• Feminist Perspectives on Art
• Feminist Perspectives on Film
• Feminist Perspectives on Literature

COURSES

• University of Massachussetts, Lowell: Continental Philosophy and Feminist Engagements (McAffee)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Cahill, Ann J., and Jennifer Hansen, eds.  Continental Feminism Reader.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

  • Griffin, Gabrielle, and Rosi Braidotti, eds.  Thinking Differently: a Reader in European Women's Studies.  London: Zed, 2002.

  • Nicholson, Linda J., eds.  Feminism / Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 1989.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Benhabib, Seyla.  "Epistemologies of Postmodernism: a Rejoinder to Jean-François Lyotard."  Feminism / Postmodernism.  Ed. Linda J. Nicholson.  London: Routledge, 1990.  107-130.

  • Bordo, Susan.  "Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender-Scepticism."  Feminism / Postmodernism.  Ed. Linda J. Nicholson.  London: Routledge, 1990.  133-157.

  • DiStefano, Christine.  "Dilemmas of Difference: Feminism, Modernity, and Postmodernism."  Feminism / Postmodernism.  Ed. Linda J. Nicholson.  London: Routledge, 1990.  63-82.

  • Flax, Jane.  "Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory."  Signs 12.4 (1987): .  Rpt. in Feminism / Postmodernism.  Ed. Linda J. Nicholson.  London: Routledge, 1990.  39-62. 

  • Hekman, Susan.  Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism.  Boston: Northeastern UP, 1990.

  • Jardine, Alice.  Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.

  • Probyn, Elspeth.  "Travels in the Postmodern: Making Sense of the Local."  Feminism / Postmodernism.  Ed. Linda J. Nicholson.  London: Routledge, 1990.  176-189.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Grewal, Inderpal, and Caren Kaplan, eds.  Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994.

• Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

• Cahill, Ann: Continental Feminist Philosophy (Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Postmodern Feminism

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