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Universal Difference

Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of 'Women'

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Kate Nash

    1. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kate Nash
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Critique of Liberalism as Masculinist

    • Kate Nash
    Pages 20-35

  4. Ambivalent Anti-patriarchalism

    • Kate Nash
    Pages 36-65

  5. The Democratisation of Liberalism

    • Kate Nash
    Pages 66-102

  6. Post-war Liberal-democracy and the Undecidability of Women

    • Kate Nash
    Pages 103-138

  7. Conclusion: Feminist Decisions

    • Kate Nash
    Pages 139-151

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 152-170
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The author argues that rather than seeing liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity, as many contemporary feminists do, we should look at variations in liberalism, and in particular at its democratisation in the nineteenth century, and at how feminists have used liberalism as a resource. Liberalism is analysed using a post-structuralist theory of hegemony: texts of liberal political philosophy are deconstructed to show how the term 'women' is used as an 'undecidable' in the Derridean sense to produce the opposition between feminine private and masculine public spheres; these texts are then linked to liberal-democratic social and political practices, including feminism as a social movement.

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  • University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Kate Nash

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KATE NASH

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