Feminist Consequences

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.

These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, literature, and representation. Contributors include Mieke Bal, Lauren Berlant, Rosi Braidotti, Elisabeth Bronfen, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Beatrice Hanssen, Claire Kahane, Ranjana Khanna, Biddy Martin, Juliet Mitchell, Anita Haya Patterson, and Valerie Smith.

Feminist Consequences, representing the forefront of international feminist thought, marks a new and long-desired stage of feminist criticism where women are themselves making theory rather than reacting to male production.

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.

These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, literature, and representation. Contributors include Mieke Bal, Lauren Berlant, Rosi Braidotti, Elisabeth Bronfen, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Beatrice Hanssen, Claire Kahane, Ranjana Khanna, Biddy Martin, Juliet Mitchell, Anita Haya Patterson, and Valerie Smith.

Feminist Consequences, representing the forefront of international feminist thought, marks a new and long-desired stage of feminist criticism where women are themselves making theory rather than reacting to male production.

3. Gender and Representation, by Rey Chow
4. Whatever Happened to Feminist Theory?, by Beatrice Hanssen
Part 2
The Ethics of Affect
5. Ethical Ambiguities and Specters of Colonialism: Futures of Transnational Feminism, by Ranjana Khanna
6. The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics, by Lauren Berlant
7. Dark Mirrors: A Feminist Reflection on Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Metaphor, by Claire Kahane
8. Class and Gender in Narratives of Passing, by Valerie Smith
Part 3
The Pleasures of Agency
9. Redressing Grievances: Cross-dressing Pleasure with the Law, by Elisabeth Bronfen
10. Contingencies of Pleasure and Shame: Jamaican Women's Poetry, by Anita Haya Patterson
11. Fierce Pussies and Lesbian Avengers: Dyke Activism Meets Celebrity Culture, by Ann Cvetkovich
Part 4
Where to Feminism?
12. Enfolding Feminism, by Mieke Bal
13. Success and Its Failures, by Biddy Martin
14. Becoming-Woman: Rethinking the Positivity of Difference, by Rosi Braidotti
15. The End of Sexual Difference?, by Judith Butler
A Return to the Future: An Interview with Drucilla Cornell
Introduction, by Misha Kavka
Part 1
Whatever Happened to Feminism?
1. Psychoanalysis and Feminism at the Millennium, by Juliet Mitchell
2. Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (excerpt), by Jane Gallop