Table of Contents

1. Unnecessary Introductions: Introductions, Definitions, Theories, Movements, Philosophies, Cross-Disciplines, And, Estrangement, Tool-Boxes and Pedagogics, The Abyss, Obligations 2. Questions of Women: Undetermined or Determined? Her-story or His-story? Gender or Sex? Linguistic or Material Girl? 3. Towards a Groundless Solidarity: Political Differences, Subject to Change: Identity Politics, To Be Negotiated: The Politics of the Undecidable 4. Institutional Interruptions: Institutions? Academic? Disciplines? Philosophy? Women's Studies? The Future of Disciplinarity? 5. Groundless Solidarity: Ethical Activism, Turning Away From Subjective Agency, Taking a Distance From Pragmatism, Approaching the Impossible Justice

About the Author

Diane Elam currently teaches in the department of English at Indiana University and McGill University. She is the author of 'Romancing the Postmodern' (Routledge 1992).

Reviews

'Awesome and lively introduction to key debates in contemporary feminist thought.' - Cathy Blackford, East London University

'A lucid and precisely-written book which addresses issues crucial to current feminist theoretical debates ... Without being reductive or oversimplifying (Elam) is able to make the interconnections between a series of complex thinkers clear to the reader.' - Elsie B.Michie, Louisiana State University