Why stories matter [electronic resource] : the political grammar of feminist theory / Clare Hemmings.

9780822393702 (electronic book)
0822393700 (electronic book)
9780822348931
0822348934
9780822349167
0822349167

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (x, 272 p.)

HQ1190 .H466 2011eb

305.4201

Hemmings insists that it is not enough for feminist theorists to lament what is most often perceived as the co-optation of feminism in global arenas. They must pay attention to the amenability of their own stories, narrative constructs, and grammatical forms to broader discursive uses of gender and feminism if history is not simply to repeat itself. Since citation practices and the mobilization of affect are central to how the narratives of progress, loss, and return persuade readers to suspend disbelief, they are also potential keys to telling the story of feminism's past, present, and future differently."--pub. website.

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