Line Drawings

by Cressida J. Heyes

Book Overview

At the heart of feminist theory lies the seemingly intractable issue of essentialism. Feminism has thus far failed to transcend critiques of essentialism and currently offers only two inadequate positions against it. One response reifies the category "women," representing the experience of oppression of privileged women as archetypal for feminism, and the other denies the category because it unjustly overgeneralizes, thus undercutting the possibility...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801436842
• ISBN13: 9780801436840
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher