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Beyond Accommodation
Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law
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1999
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This new edition of Drucilla Cornell's highly acclaimed book includes a substantial new introduction by the author, which situates the book within current feminist debates. In Beyond Accommodation, Drucilla Cornell offers a highly original vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, arguing that any attempt to affirm woman's value and difference by either emphasizing her maternal role or repudiating the feminine only entraps women, once again, in a container that curtails feminine sexual difference, legitimates the masculine fantasy of woman, and reinstates, rather than dismantles, the gender hierarchy. In response to these movements, Beyond Accommodation strives to broaden the scope of feminist theory by articulating a platform, under the concept of relative universalism, which proposes the idea that women are not a unified and homogenous group although they are positioned as women in patriarchy. Cornell's theory allows for differences in women's situations without giving up on the idea that women are fighting a common phenomenon called patriarchy.
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Copyright year
1999
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9268-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7152-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
239
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction to the New Edition: Feminist Hope No access Pages 1 - 20
1. The Maternal and the Feminine: Social Reality, Fantasy and Ethical Relation No access Pages 21 - 78
2. The Feminist Alliance with Deconstruction No access Pages 79 - 118
3. Feminism Always Modified: The Affirmation of Feminine Difference Rethought No access Pages 119 - 164
4. Feminine Writing, Metaphor and Myth No access Pages 165 - 196
Conclusion: "Happy Days" No access Pages 197 - 206
