Transformations

Celia Lury, Sarah Ahmed, Jane Kilby, Maureen McNeil, Maureen Mcneil, Beverley Skeggs

• Introduction: Thinking Through Feminism Part 1: The Rhetorics of Feminism 1. The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, privacy and politics 2. Shaming Theory, Thinking Distinctions: Feminism and reconciliation 3. Owned Suffering: Thinking the feminist political imagination with Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Wright 4. 'Unifying Forces': Rhetorical reflections on a pro-choice image 5. Luce Irigaray's Sexual Rights and the Politics of Performativity Part 2: Boundaries and Connections 6. Claiming Transformations: Travel notes with pictures 7. From Politics of Identity to Politics of Complexity: A possible research agenda for feminist politics/movements across time and space 8. Operatic Karaoke and the Pitfalls of Identity Politics: A translated performance 9. Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking/teaching identity Part 3: Knowledges and Disciplines 10. Forays of a Philosophical Feminist: Sexual difference, genealogy, teleology 11. Philosophy and the Feminist Imagination 12. Still Telling It Like It Is?: Problems of feminist truth claims 13. Techno-triumphialism, Techno-tourism, American Dreams and Feminism 14. Nuclear Families: Women's narratives of the making of the atomic bomb Part 4: Subject Matters 15. Objects of Innovation: Post-occupational reflexivity and re-traditionalisations of gender 16. Consumerism and Compulsory Individuality: Women, will and potential 17. Reframing Pregnant Embodiment 18. Monsters, Marvels and Metaphysics: Beyond the powers of horror 19. Belonging and Unbelonging: Transformations of memory in the photographs of Virginia Woolf