The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of IdentityIn her new book, Christine Battersby rethinks questions of embodiment, essence, sameness and difference, self and "other," patriarchy and power. Using analyses of Kant, Adorno, Irigaray, Butler, Kierkegaard and Deleuze, she challenges those who argue that a feminist metaphysics is a contradiction in terms. The Phenomenal Woman marks out a place for a metaphysics of fluidity in the current debates concerning postmodernism, feminism and identity politics. It will interest philosophers unfamiliar with feminist theory, and open up debates in feminist philosophy to non-philosophers studying women and gender. |
Contents
Here There Be Monsters | 11 |
Her BodyHer Boundaries | 38 |
Kantian Metaphysics and the Sexed Self | 61 |
Feminist Postmodernism and the Metaphysics | 77 |
Modernity and Selfcertainty | 83 |
Derridean Complications | 89 |
Beyond Deconstruction | 96 |
Antigones of Gender | 103 |
The Young Man | 156 |
Seducer and Seduced | 164 |
Recollecting Forwards | 171 |
Kantian SoundsKantian Sight | 178 |
Metaphysics in Movement | 184 |
Lines of Flight | 192 |
Coda | 198 |
Notes | 211 |
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