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Lacan and Postfeminism

By Elizabeth Wright

Book information

Publisher
Totem Books
Year
2000
ISBN
1840461829, 9781840461824
Open Library ID
OL8915776M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
539 kB (551663 bytes)
Series
Postmodern Encounters
Pages
75\80
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Jacques Lacan has been acknowledged as one of the giants of psychoanalysis, whose influence has spread far from the clinical psychology that his theories were rooted in, to become a touch point in English, social science, philosophy and perhaps most radically, feminism. Moreover, his key work on the constitution of identity and the recognition of self have enabled feminism to move with the times and adapt its theories to a new political climate. Nominal equality at least may have largely been achieved for many women in the western world - but the old questions still haunt the thinking of gender relations, and require fresh input if trenchant criticism is to remain alive.

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