Feminism enchanted /
"Feminism Enchanted is motivated by this question: what happens if feminism is untethered from its structuring narrative of progress? There is no doubt that much of what feminism stands for, why its constitutive modes of analysis are mobilized, has been established on the bedrock of progress. Y...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "Feminism Enchanted is motivated by this question: what happens if feminism is untethered from its structuring narrative of progress? There is no doubt that much of what feminism stands for, why its constitutive modes of analysis are mobilized, has been established on the bedrock of progress. Yanbing Er argues that progress has largely foreclosed what feminism is and can do; she introduces the concept of enchantment as a means of freeing feminist theory and praxis from such a delimiting structure. Enchantment functions as a heuristic for telling new and different feminist stories that only become possible when dominant paradigms of knowing and knowledge making are disrupted by another kind of interpretive practice. What these counternarratives present is a feminism that is more accountable to its dissonant genealogies, attentive to uneven lifeworlds that we collectively inhabit and continue to create. In other words, they reveal different feminisms that have been held back by the obligation to progress. The book proposes a critical method of enchantment whose conceptual power allows us to encounter both feminism and the world anew. This urgent undertaking has profound political and ethical stakes; it refuses the reductive logic of progress that has so completely informed our ways of thinking, living, and being"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231559775 (electronic bk.) 0231559771 |