The independent women’s movement that emerged in Europe and North America in the last twenty years is restructuring our theoretical tradition. After an initial phase of deconstruction, in which feminist theorists uncovered the gender blindness as well as the gender biases of our intellectual heritage, the task of feminist theoretical “reconstruction” began.

Feminism as Critique comes out of this feminist project of theoretical reconstruction. the collection builds on work currently in progress in Europe and North America, invoking critical theory and post-structuralism. Although diverse, the essays in this volume share both a rejection of the liberal conception of the self as a “disengaged self” or and atomic, “unencumbered subject,” and a conviction that twentieth-century Marxism requires a paradigm shift.

Contributers: Linda Nicholson, Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, Maria Markus, Isaac d. Balbus, Judith Butler, and Adam Thurschwell.

$24.00 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-1636-7
200 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 1987