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Poststructural feminism is a branch of feminism that engages with insights from post-structuralist thought. Poststructural feminism emphasizes "the contingent and discursive nature of all identities", [ 1 ] and in particular the social construction of gendered subjectivities.
May 12, 2021 · The central themes of consideration for feminist poststructuralism have become the subject, identity, and culture. Culture has replaced the classical categories of society, politics, and history by way of fusing them into a single concept (i.e., culture).
Jun 19, 2020 · This chapter will provide a detailed insight into how feminist and post-structuralist philosophies worked together in this research to drive the exploration and analysis of the dominant discourses and different forms of surveillance embedded within modern motherhood....
- Helen Simmons
- h.simmons@derby.ac.uk
- 2020
May 11, 2016 · French philosophers and critics such as Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigary developed a notion of women’s writing that is a product of female body, beyond logic, fighting in an anarchic realm against authority, and being immune to social conditioning.
May 22, 2015 · Indeed Feminist Poststructuralism is especially appealing as it offers an analysis beyond liberal feminists’ attention to individual women’s rights, and radical feminism’s collective action for social justice and the end of patriarchy.
These writers suggest that the new subject of poststructuralist theory will be more open to the changes desired by feminist and social justice movements. They describe the break with the liberal humanist subject as a break that heralds new possibilities of personal and cultural transformation.
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Dec 20, 2023 · Here, I discuss the broader utility of feminist poststructuralism as a framework for conceptualising social change in masculinities, and thus its capacity to remedy the current theoretical gaps in the CSMM field.
