Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought

Birgit Schippers is Senior Lecturer in Law at Strathclyde Law School. Her areas of interests include human rights and emerging technologies, and critical legal theory.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Kristeva and Feminism: A Critical Encounter; 2. Crisis, Revolt, Intimacy; 3. Corporeal Ethics: Between Violence and Forgiveness; 4. The Singularity of Genius; 5. Towards a Philosophy of Freedom?; Bibliography; Index.

Schippers provides a very readable and balanced account of the complex relations between Kristeva's thought and contemporary feminism. While making some telling criticisms of Kristeva, Schippers reads her recent philosophy of freedom and revolt - against the grain - as a feminist philosophy and succeeds in making Kristeva's ideas productive for feminist political thinking. -- Alison Stone, Reader in European Philosophy, Lancaster University Schippers provides a very readable and balanced account of the complex relations between Kristeva's thought and contemporary feminism. While making some telling criticisms of Kristeva, Schippers reads her recent philosophy of freedom and revolt - against the grain - as a feminist philosophy and succeeds in making Kristeva's ideas productive for feminist political thinking.