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Contando estórias feministas

Hemmings, Clare (2009) Contando estórias feministas. Revista Estudos Feministas, 17 (1). pp. 215-241. ISSN 0104-026X

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Identification Number: 10.1590/S0104-026X2009000100012

Abstract

This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the development of feminist thought as a relentless march of progress or loss. This dominant approach oversimplifies the complex history of Western feminisms, fixes writers and perspectives within a particular decade, and repeatedly (and erroneously) positions poststructuralist feminists as 'the first' to challenge the category 'woman' as the subject and object of feminist knowledge. Rather than provide a corrective history of Western feminist theory, the article interrogates the techniques through which this dominant story is secured, despite the fact that we (feminist theorists) know better. My focus, therefore, is on citation patterns, discursive framings and some of their textual, theoretical and political effects. As an alternative, I suggest a realignment of key theorists purported to provide a critical break in feminist theory with their feminist citational traces, to force a concomitant re-imagining of our historical legacy and our place within it. It is a Portuguese translation of an article which was originally published as Telling Feminist Stories’, Feminist Theory, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2005 pp.115-139.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.scielo.br/revistas/ref/iaboutj.htm
Additional Information: © 2009 Revista Estudos Feministas
Divisions: Gender Studies
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2011 10:22
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 05:45
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31076

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