Authors: Drucilla Cornell
ISBN-13: 9780847692682, ISBN-10: 084769268X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: NEW
This new edition of Drucilla Cornell's highly acclaimed book includes a substantial new introduction by the author, which situates the book within current feminist debates. In Beyond Accommodation, Drucilla Cornell offers a highly original vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, arguing that any attempt to affirm woman's value and difference by either emphasizing her maternal role or repudiating the feminine only entraps women, once again, in a container that curtails feminine sexual difference, legitimates the masculine fantasy of woman, and reinstates, rather than dismantles, the gender hierarchy.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction to the New Edition: Feminist Hope | ||
Introduction: Writing the Manifesta: The Dilemma of Postmodern Feminism | 1 | |
1 | The Maternal and the Feminine: Social Reality, Fantasy and Ethical Relation | 21 |
2 | The Feminist Alliance with Deconstruction | 79 |
3 | Feminism Always Modified: The Affirmation of Feminine Difference Rethought | 119 |
4 | Feminine Writing, Metaphor and Myth | 165 |
Conclusion: "Happy Days" | 197 | |
Notes | 207 | |
Index | 235 |