Exclusions in Feminist Thought

Mary Brewer is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester.

• Contents: Introduction by Mary Brewer; Practising Difference Differently: Cyborg Consciousness and Political Practice; Ivory Towers and Guardians of the Word: Language and Discourse in the Academy; TransForm/ando Women's Studies: Latina Theory: Re-Imagines America; Violating the Seal of Race: The Politics of (Post)Identity and the Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy; (Post)Colonial (Dis)orders: Female Embodiment as Chaos in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine; "See, I've got my tit out!": Women's Performance Art and Punk Rock; Leaving Las Vegas: Reading the Prostitute as a Voice of Abjection; Theorising Feminisms: Breast Cancer Narratives and Reconstructed 'Women'; Aboriginal Women and the Canadian Women's Movement; Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialised Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism; Feminism and the Aesthetic; Bodily Transactions: Jean Genet in the Feminist Debate; 'Doing' Judith: Race, Mixed Race and Performativity; Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminist, Lesbian or Transgendered?; The Contributors; Index.

"Mary Brewer homes in on controversial issues among women pornography, rape, mothering, domesticity and work, and debates about the butch/fem model and gender-bending among lesbians." -- Alan Sinfield, Professor of Literature, University of Sussex