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Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom by Linda Marie Gelsomina Zerilli is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom about?
In contemporary feminist theory, the problem of feminine subjectivity persistently appears and reappears as the site that grounds all discussion of feminism. In__Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom,__Linda M. G. Zerilli argues that the persistence of this subject-centered frame severely limits feminists' capacity to think imaginatively about the central problem of feminist theory and practice: a politics concerned with freedom.Offering both a discussion of feminism in its postmodern context and a critique of contemporary theory, Zerilli here challenges feminists to move away from a theory-based approach, which focuses on securing or contesting "women" as an analytic category of feminism, to one rooted in political action and judgment. She revisits the democratic problem of exclusion from participation in common affairs and elaborates a freedom-centered feminism as the political practice of beginning anew, world-building, and judging. In a series of case studies, Zerilli draws on the political thought of Hannah Arendt to articulate a nonsovereign conception of political freedom and to explore a variety of feminist understandings of freedom in the twentieth century, including ones prop
Who reads Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Linda Marie Gelsomina Zerilli
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226981345
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 4.35 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13