Women's Liberation and the Sublime

Bonnie Mann is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Her writing is informed by two decades of activism in the movement against violence against women and the anti-war movement. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her partner and four daughters.

• Preface Introduction: The Linguistic Turn 1: Feminism and the Sublime 2: The Kantian Sublime: A Story in Two Paradoxes 3: The Postmodern Sublime 4: The Stakes of Feminism and the Feminist Postmodern 5: Interlude: Postmodern Goods (Sublime Experience in Feminist Celebrations of Pornography) 6: Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism (What's Wrong with Discursive Bodies?) 7: Foundations for a Feminist Sublime 8: The Liberatory Sublime 9: The Natural Sublime Conclusion

Overall, Mann's criticisms of postmodern feminism are important and her explanation of the positive feminist use of the sublime breaks new ground.