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	Postmodern feminism Totally Explained
		Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory.
		Although postmodernism resists characterization, it's possible to identify certain themes or orientations that postmodern feminists share.
		Mary Joe Frug suggested that one "principle" of postmodernism is that human experience is located "inescapably within language." Power is exercised not only through direct coercion, but also through the way in which language shapes and restricts our reality.
	postmodern_feminism.totallyexplained.com (525 words)

	Feminism
		Postmodern discourses are all deconstructive in that they seek to distance us from and make us sceptical about beliefs concerning truth, knowledge, power, the self, and language that are taken for granted within, and serve as legitimation for, contemporary Western culture (p.
		Whilst a 'postmodern' position may be one I would have great empathy with I would risk the accusation of writing from the position of a 'true believer' of the fundamentalist creed according to 'postmodernism' if I did not outline some of the 'tensions' between modernism/postmodernism within feminism.
		Postmodern theorists would be in danger of constructing yet another 'regime of truth', yet in so doing the way is left open for these theories to be co-opted for ends which may not have envisaged.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~alock/theory/feminism.htm (2658 words)

	Marxist / Materialist Feminism
		Rosemary Hennessy (1993) traces the origins of Materialist Feminism in the work of British and French feminists who preferred the term materialist feminism to Marxist feminism because, in their view, Marxism had to be transformed to be able to explain the sexual division of labor (Beechey, 1977: 61, cited in Kuhn and Wolpe, 1978: 8).
		Materialist Feminism is a "way of reading" that rejects the dominant pluralist paradigms and logics of contingency and seeks to establish the connections between the discursively constructed differentiated subjectivities that have replaced the generic "woman" in feminist theorizing, and the hierarchies of inequality that exploit and oppress women.
		The authors differentiate materialist feminism from marxist feminism by indicating that it is the end result of several discourses (historical materialism, marxist and radical feminism, and postmodern and psychoanalytic theories of meaning and subjectivity) among which the postmodern input, in their view, is the source of its defining characteristics.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/mar.html (3132 words)

	The Language of Caryl Churchill: the Rhythms of Feminist Theory, Acting Theory, and Gender Politics
		While Churchill's postmodern language disturbs the traditional (male) linear play structure, her language additionally reveals an awareness of the actor and director's creative process (via Monstrous Regiment and Joint Stock).
		Moreover, Churchill's postmodern insertion of the songs echoes Cixous' belief that "feminine writing is not merely a new style of writing; it is the very possibility of change, the space that can serve as a springboard for subversive thought, the precursory movement of a transformation of social and cultural standards" (Tong 200).
		The songs serve to emphasize the postmodern feminism of Churchill's "sign-systems"; the structural placement of the songs emphasizes the feminist position against traditional male dramatic structures, while simultaneously criticizing traditional patriarchal mistreatment of women.
	www.womenwriters.net /editorials/PriceEd1.htm (2849 words)

	PostModernism Chapter Book
		La Condition Postmoderne (The Postmodern Condition) was constructed as a request from the Council des Universities of the Quebec Government as an interim report on the present state of knowledge in the advanced societies.
		In Postmodernism, there is a view that the male is the venter and that the female is therefore marginal to him--that the female is not an equal of the male.
		Postmodern feminists have sought to bring a focus and centralized position to the female, despite some postmodern literary ideas which try to prevent this from happening.
	flash.lakeheadu.ca /~engl4904/postmodernism.html (2383 words)

	Feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation.
		Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense may be usefully dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education.
		Feminism became an organized movement in the 19th century as people increasingly came to believe that women were being treated unfairly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feminism (3999 words)

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		postmodern feminism is a hybrid, contemporary and sometimes conflicted set of concepts and practices about the feminine at this sociohistorical moment.
		postmodernism calls into question all grand narratives (reason, truth, beauty, art, science) in a society informed by western metaphysics and accelerated by technological development.
		postmodern feminism, in consequence, presents a challenge to essentialist feminisms by emphasizing the artificiality of the body, of gender, of race, of sexuality, of femininity.
	www.yorku.ca /mlc/sosc3990A/projects/pomofem/pomo.html (220 words)

	Teresa Ebert
		The crux of all ludic postmodern and feminist theories, however, is the rewriting of the social as largely discursive (thus marked by the traits of linguistic difference), local, contingent, asystematic and indeterminate.
		The "matter" of ludic feminism, in short, is a non-determining matter that depends on the subject and, as such, it is a reinscription of traditional Euroamerican idealism-this time represented as postmodern (non-positivist) materialism-to cover up the contradictions and crisis of patriarchal-capitalist.
		In ludic feminism, then, materialism (as a resisting matter) is an "invention." The seemingly "antitranscendental" element that materialism is supposed to bring to bear upon social analysis for ludic feminists, as Stockton herself realises, "only masks their deep dependence" upon "mystic unfathomable Visibilities" (132).
	www.angelfire.com /on/pisd/archive/TeresaEbert.htm (12567 words)

	Women's Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As postmodernity brings space and truth, time and body, nature and representation, and culture and technology into a series of startling collisions, we begin to ask questions about what interests were served by the stability of these categories and about who, in contrast, benefits from a recognition of radical instability within the postmodern.
		Haraway's essay figures the cultural feminism of the late 1970s and the early 1980s as the goddess because it revived and reinvested, in an idealized concept of woman, a concept that exiled her in nature and essentialized her in relation to gender.
		Postmodern feminism, as I have been arguing, can find positive and productive ways in which to theorize gender, science, and technology, and their connections within the fertile and provocative field of machine intelligence.
	www.dac.neu.edu /womens.studies/halberstam.htm (5695 words)

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		Postmodern philosophers share with feminist philosophers the image of an intrinsic male-bias in most of the basic (meta) discourses of modernity as it is currently experienced.
		Since the beginning of their enterprise, postmodern philosophers put themselves in the way of showing how the traditional dichotomies upon which modern discourses as those of sexuality, politics, language and literature, are built over the subordination of one of the members (the identity) to the other (difference), and 'deconstructing' its asymmetry.
		Postmodern philosophy has always define itself as a linguistic enterprise which tries to eliminate the unidirectionality of the power relations embedded in language and open new fields for the insertion of experience in the text.
	www.filosoficas.unam.mx /~abarcelo/texts/fempm.html (3396 words)

	Facing Off: Postmodern/Feminism
		While postmodernism invites us to engage in continual dismantling of the grand narratives of progress and "the good", traditional feminists hold to an evaluative foundation in their analysis of societal positionings.
		On the other hand, she is a liberated, highly successful postmodern artist, who in performance transcends her pain by playfully and politically arranging and rearranging the fragments....
		Postmodern move to the relational a postmodern feminism can cope with the collapsed notions of foundationalist premises, such as that of the stable and unified self-concept.
	www.taosinstitute.net /manuscripts/facingoff.html (2338 words)

	What Kind of Feminist Are You?
		Amazon feminism is dedicated to the image of the female hero in Greek mythology, as it is expressed in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in sexual values and practices.
		Amazon feminism focuses on physical equality and is opposed to gender role stereotypes and discrimination against women based on assumptions that women are supposed to be, look, or behave as if they are passive, weak and physically helpless.
		Postmodernism claims that terms such as "oppression" are simply constructs that actually inhibit women's freedom because making claims of oppression strengthens the dichotomy of "oppressor and oppressed." Postmodernism unveils the oppressive structures that are built into feminist theories.
	www.umt.edu /wcenter/default_files/page0004.htm (1279 words)

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		Her assumption, for instance, that the reified categories of Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism justify themselves as a chosen framework for such a book is unspoken and suspect.
		Since the impetus of feminism originally grew out of women's need to have choices and options in response to that question, any book that claims to be feminist should follow that spirit without resorting to what may look on the surface like an appropriately postmodern, open-ended, but actually despairing uncertainty of purpose.
		Postmodernism should not be used as an excuse to avoid commitment to a political vision, nor should its emphasis on absences be used to side-step the validity of our own personal experiences (particularly a %feminist% project) or our responsibility of coming to terms with crises in our society.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/pmc/pmc-v2n2-ross-fragmented.txt (1084 words)

	thompson
		Feminism brings with it the dilemma of gender, a dilemma largely ignored by postmodernism, while the latter's deconstruction of metanarratives is seen, by those who champion it, not as a destructive force, but as a chance to understand the workings of such ideological concerns.
		The notion of "genre busting" is found in the postmodern mixing of horror, comedy and drama, and results in the playful deconstruction of genre conventions, forcing the audience to question their assumed knowledge of the 'rules' of a particular genre, such as the formal repetitive structure of horror films (Dika, 1987:87).
		Postmodernism and feminism are complex and developed ideologies, yet that's not to say that they cannot evolve further.
	www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au /journalissues/vol2/jimthompson.html (3052 words)

	Performing Gender
		For Bordo, this “gender skepticism” is dangerous for feminism; while she acknowledges that the binary gender construction is a cultural phenomenon that manifests itself on sexed bodies, she stresses that a complete dismantling of gender is useless while the binary produces material effects.
		Her concerns with postmodern feminism — the valorization of difference and the de-emphasis on gender — are detrimental for feminism because they take agency away from the feminist theorist and erase a collective, unified, political “voice” from academic feminism.
		Although the focus of Butler’s essay is the relationship between postmodernism and feminism, the lens is herself, the theorist-as-performed, and the academic context she performs in.
	www.gwu.edu /~medusa/2001/performing.html (2959 words)

	Postmodernism
		Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism.
		Postmodernism can also be used as a pejorative term to attack changes in society seen as undesirable as they relate to questioning of absolute value systems and other forms of foundationalism.
		Postmodernism called for a disruption of the dominance of high culture by popular culture; mixing of popular and high cultures, new valuation of pop culture, hybrid cultural forms cancel "high"/"low" categories.
	www.jahsonic.com /PostModernism.html (1340 words)

	A Post Modern View of Feminism at Feminist Utopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I agree with Postmodern Feminism the most, and it is my belief that the reason why feminism has failed in the past is that it has looked at 'gender equality' and not social harmony.
		Postmodern feminists say that society has changed the definition of gender to serve today's conditions.
		That is exactly why the types of feminism we know of have not worked in the past, and will not work in the future.
	www.amazoncastle.com /feminism/voices2.shtml (928 words)

	Islam, Postmodernity and Freedom
		The primary moral agenda behind postmodern attempts to destabilize the foundations of modern knowledge and modern ethics is to challenge essential theorizing claiming universal applicability.
		Postmodernism, I believe, may not have a universally applicable definition, Lyotard’s famous claim “postmodernism is an expression of incredulity at grand narratives” not withstanding; but it is most certainly is a universal phenomenon.
		Postmodernism in that sense is the exasperated, and to some extent, an irrational response to the stifling quality of modern institutions.
	www.ijtihad.org /discourse.htm (1695 words)

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		The future of feminism and feminist theory, argues Ebert, lies in reclaiming the radical knowledges that have been obscured by what she calls "ludic theory" : the branch of postmodernism that sees politics primarily as a linguistic and textual practice, and focuses on subverting cultural representations of difference.
		She argues instead for the possibilities of a "resistance post-modernism" in feminism: theory grounded in the social struggle over the "material differences" of labor and access to economic means and resources.
		Ebert's vision of feminism is of a politics that has absorbed the lessons of postmodern theories and must now move on to articulate its own materialist knowledge within postmodern-ity.
	www.deathstar.org /groups/umpress/Titles/ebert.html (368 words)

	Breakin' it Down
		After an extensive study of feminism, liberatory pedagogy and media education, I developed a curriculum to encourage girls to delve deeply into accessing and evaluating gender stereotypes in music videos.
		Postmodernism allowed me to explore the power and impact of the visual images in popular culture as vehicles to more fully explicate video aesthetics, for example the currently popular application of rapid montage imagery.
		The theoretical backdrop of feminism underscores the issue of subjectivity as I observed and interpreted it.
	www.storybookonline.net /breakinitdown/dig/thesis1.htm (351 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Caught within the nature/culture divide, feminism has pursued two equally unsatisfying paths: embracing nature along with all "her" gendered trappings, or, conversely, fleeing from nature and thereby leaving in place the very associations -- with stasis, with passivity, with abject matter -- that have made nature a hazardous terrain for women.
		These writings not only illustrate how important it is for feminism to contend with the nature that has been waged against women, but, more surprisingly, they demonstrate that nature has been and continues to be a place of feminist possibility.
		Whether nature is invoked as a space saturated with cultural values, an undomesticated ground that interrogates social constructions, or a postmodern topos that no longer even resembles the nature of old, it has been and continues to be an essential--though volatile--site for the cultural work of feminism.
	www.uta.edu /english/alaimo/book.html (1853 words)

	Feminism Beyond Modernism \| Flynn
		Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread.
		Feminism Beyond Modernism comes to its defense in a cogent and astute manner by first distinguishing between postmodern and antimodern feminisms and then reclaiming postmodern feminism by reconfiguring its relationship to modernism.
		Too often postmodern feminism is unfairly identified as opposed to modernism and associated with subjectivism and relativism.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/s02_titles/flynn_feminism.htm (339 words)

	Feminism
		1) Feminism: Feminism is a diverse, competing, and often opposing collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economical inequalities.
		Postmodern feminist theories imply that no universal research agenda or application of technologies will be appropriate and that various women will have different reactions to technologies depending upon their own class, race, sexuality, country, and other factors.
		In contrast to liberal feminism, postmodernism dissolves the universal subject and the possibility that women speak in a unified voice or that they can be universally addressed.
	www.istheory.yorku.ca /Feminism.htm (1398 words)

	T H E_B Y Z A N T I U M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Postmodern Feminism is a particular kind of Postmodernism and a particular kind of feminist theory that has become prominent in feminist thinking over the last couple decades.
		Criticism of radical feminism include that it suggests that men and women are two separate species with no commonality and that it romanticizes women and interactions between women.
		Three writers have been instrumental in the establishment of Postmodern feminism as a philosophy: Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.
	kavvy.multiply.com /journal/item/115 (1158 words)

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