ABSTRACT

Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism and religious conflict in contemporary India; Re-imaginings of science and subjectivity in anglophone science fiction; and the political and intellectual complexities at stake in the project of lesbian studies in the UK. Contributions from these diverse fields come together to give critical attention to the complex terrain of Feminism in the 1990s.

part |2 pages

Editorial:

chapter |22 pages

Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]?

Conflicting Discourses on Gender at Beijing

chapter |32 pages

‘To Whom Does Ameena Belong?’

Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in Contemporary India

chapter |24 pages

Pat Cadigan’s Synners:

Refiguring Nature, Science and Technology

chapter |14 pages

‘I Teach Therefore I Am’:

Lesbian Studies in the Liberal Academy

part |2 pages

American Eve

chapter |18 pages

Reviews

chapter |11 pages

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