Generational Feminism : New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach

Van Der Tuin, Iris

ISBN 10: 1498506909 / ISBN 13: 9781498506908

Published by Lexington Books, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generational Feminism : New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498506909
• ISBN 13: 9781498506908
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict. Generational logic is said to problematize feminist theory and gender research as it follows a logic of divide and conquer between the old and the young and participates in patriarchal structures and phallologocentrism. Examining the continental philosophies of Bergson and Deleuze and French feminisms of sexual difference, van der Tuin paves the way for a more complex notion of generationality. This new conception of the term views generational cohorts as static measurements that happen in the flow of being. Prioritizing this generative flow gives what is measured its proper place as an effect. Generational Feminism: New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach experiments with a previously disregarded methodology's implications as an impetus for a new materialism and advances feminist politics for the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University.