...Robin James Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through...

...Donna V. Jones This brief review essay focuses on the central question posed in Ewa Plonowska Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism : if feminism is considered in social and biographical terms while aesthetics focuses on questions of form and abstraction, does a feminist...

... and political community, a feminist intellectual cannot but stop and think. Not unlike Virginia Woolf on the eve of one of Europe's many "community-based" wars, one must take the time to think through some of the many forms taken by the project of unification, and try to analyze the language used to express...

...Maurizia Boscagli MAURIZIA BOSCAGLI UnaccoDlpanied Ladies: FeDlinist, Italian, and in the AcadeDlY L y, 2 pm. Setting: the National Library in Florence. Under a fierce sun I am waiting for Anna Scattigno, a feminist historian who teaches at the University of Florence. We will meet, lunch together...

...Kathy E. Ferguson; Kirstie M. McClure Politics/Power/Culture: PostlDodernity and FelDinist Political Theory prelitninary Rminist political theory - a curious phrase, perhaps for some even striking, if only in its apparent redundancy. Is not feminist theory sufficient? Is it not necessarily...

...Wendy Brown Felllinist Hesitations, Postlllodern Exposures WENDY BROWN rat we live in postmodern times is nearly inarguable but like all things postmodern, there is no consensus, even among North Atlantic postmarxist postmodernist feminists, about the configuration of this condition, its most...

...Lisa C. Bower "Mother" in Law: Conceptions of Mother and the Maternal in Felllinislll and Felllinist Legal Theory LISA C. BOWER re question ofmotherhood and the maternal is currently a topic of considerable debate within feminist theories. In the 60s, some feminists focused on the family...

... that, invent. They do not say that the vulva is the primaljorm which as such describes the world in all its extent, in all its movement. They do not in their discourses create conventionalfigures derivedfrom these symbols. (Wittig, Guerilleres 89, 61) MniqUe Wittig's Les Guerilleres is a feminist intervention...

...Teresa de Lauretis Copyright © 1988 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1988 Works Cited Alcoff Linda . “ Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory .” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society...

...Diana Fuss Copyright © 1988 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1998 Works Cited Culler Jonathan . On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1982 . de Lauretis Teresa . Alice Doesn't...

...Wendy Brown Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. wendy brown teaches political theory at the University of California, Berkeley...

...Ann duCille During its formative years—its short happy life in the latter decades of the twentieth century—black feminist criticism focused almost exclusively on literature by and about black women, a body of work it claimed as its own “precious” private property. This essay uses a foreign body...

...Elizabeth Grosz This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events...

... provisionally titled “Species Politics in Environmental Crises.” © 2012 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2012 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Barad...

...Marianne Hirsch In this essay, based on a talk given at the Pembroke Center at Brown University, the author imagines a course in 2027 based on the Feminist Theory Archives. Exploring what the archive transmits about a specific moment of feminist theory, born of second-wave feminism, and what...

...Jean-Thomas Tremblay This essay traces an aesthetic genealogy of feminist breathing since the 1970s. Deviating from declension narratives that locate in that decade the end of breathing as a means of feminist socialization and politicization, this essay argues that indigenous and black feminisms...

... Rosi . “ The Uses and Abuses of the Sex/Gender Distinction in European Feminist Practices .” Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women’s Studies . Ed. Griffin Gabriele Braidotti Rosi . London : Zed , 2002 . 285 – 307 . Brown Gavin . “ Homonormativity: A Metropolitan...

..., “hospitality” appears as a way to question universalizing feminist proposals and their capacity to disrupt domestic and national orders. These “promises” are first addressed in a general way before being more precisely considered through the lens of the French “republican” model of politics and science...

...LYNNE HUFFER 2001 lynne huffer is Professor of French Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Rice University. She is the author of Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing (University of Michigan Press, 1992) and Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics...

...JOAN WALLACH SCOTT 2002 joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard University Press, 1996). She is writing a book about...