...Feminist Theory This chapter focuses on one example (Gayle Rubin’s influential work on gender and sexuality) that illustrates how feminism has placed biology at a distance from its conceptual and political interests. The chapter begins by working through a small section of Rubin’s “Thinking...

... The introduction explains how Ahmed is thinking of feminist theory as homework, as what we are doing when we are navigating restrictions we encounter in everyday life. She suggests that we need to repose feminism as a life question. She explains how the book relates to her previous work, as well...

...Gender, Theory, and African American Feminist Criticism ...

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... of the conceptual and political effects of Rubin’s aversion to biological explanation. In particular, it is interested in how the belly and antibiologism figure in Rubin’s attempts to forge new directions for feminist theory. The implications of this for feminist theory are canvassed via Melanie Klein’s theory...

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