Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation

by Imani Perry

Book Overview

Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem--"patriarchy"--is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, recentering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478000813
• ISBN13: 9781478000815
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary