The Oppositional Imagination (RLE Feminist Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415754283 ISBN 13: 9780415754286

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The Oppositional Imagination draws together elements from Marxism, analytical philosophy, post-structuralism, and post-colonial criticism to analyse the elusive interplay of culture and power. It focuses its attention on cultural domination, opposition and evasion in the realm of sex and gender.

Joan Cocks reflects on questions crucial to both political theorists and feminists: the relationship between political theory and practical life; the possibility of bringing together a philosophical and a literary language to comprehend and evoke concrete experience; and the reconciliation of radical political commitment with an appreciation of shades of grey in the social world. She explores the variety of ways in which power and eroticism intersect; the liberating and tyrannical impulses of marginal cultures; and the place of the loyalist, the eccentric, the critic, the traitor, and the rebel in the sexual struggle.

The Oppositional Imagination reaffirms the centrality of political theory and feminist practice while at the same time challenging certain of their key principles in thought-provoking ways.

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Joan Cocks

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415754283
• ISBN 13: 9780415754286
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Cocks Joan