Feminism After Bourdieu by Lisa Adkins

Feminism After Bourdieu by Lisa Adkins

Brings feminist theory face to face with Pierre Bourdieus social theory. Demonstrates how much Bourdieus theory has to offer to contemporary feminism. Comprises a series of contributions from key contemporary feminist thinkers.

Contemporaries bemoan Pierre Bourdieu's ontology of what seems to be eternal reproductionYet this book shows that Bourdieu is more than ever relevant for twenty-first century feminism. The authors show how Bourdieu's notion of `symbolic violence' opens up a space of analysis of gendered power missed by the fashionable concepts of performativity. They point to the possibility of a gendered and relational phenomenology of the body that opens up vistas onto today's lived experience of gender. They bring Bourdieusian ideas of emotional capital and reflexivity into contemporary debates on affect. Bourdieu himself said that anybody can explain how things change, but that only his type of theory can explain how they stay the same. The feminist scholars that Adkins and Skeggs have brought together prove him wrong. They use the old master's concepts against the grain to throw light on the chronic mutations in what some call today's post-feminist condition.
Professor Scott Lash, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

A very interesting and valuable addition... This collection manages to include a range of theoretical and empirical material, thoroughly demonstrating the place of feminism after Bourdieu. Network

Feminism afer Bourdieu provides a variety of uses, reappropriations, criticisms, and expansions of Bourdieu's social theory ... What is most satisfying is the refusal of the scholars to accept Bourdieu's theory as-is and then struggle to work within it. They deomonstrate the possibility of critiquing and even rejecting a theory, yet nevertheless finding components of it useful for new thought, Both feminist scholars and sociologists should find this book helpful ... Hopefully the book can reinvigorate discussion about not only Bourdieu but other theorists who have been summarily dismissed due to failures in their theories to properly address sex and gender. APA Newsletter

Now with the appearance of Feminism after Bourdieu, we are fortunate to have thanks to Lisa Adkins and Beverley Skeggs, an outstanding set of new contributions to the debate which promise not only to inform and enrich it, but also direct it into the future. In doing so, perhaps one of the significant achievements of this exemplary edited collection is to show us that seemingly opposed theoretical positions on Bourdieu's legacy may in fact have more in common than might have been originally supposed ... Feminism after Bourdieu is without a doubt one of the best resources currently available to us for understanding the lifetime work of Pierre Bourdieu and its power and potential for recasting debates about gender in feminist thought. It is a work which is noteworthy for its highly innovative intellectual scope, and for the social and cultural theory fields in general ... immensely important and inspiring volume. British Journal of Sociology

Lisa Adkins is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her previous books include Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity (2002), Gendered Work (Second Edition, 1997), Sexualizing the Social (1996) and Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body (1996).

Beverley Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London. Her previous publications include Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (2004), Class, Self, Culture (2004), Transformations: Thinking through Feminism (2000) and Formations of Class and Gender (1997).

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ISBN 13	9781405123952
ISBN 10	1405123958
Title	Feminism After Bourdieu
Author	Lisa Adkins
Series	Sociological Review Monographs
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2005-04-21
Number of pages	268
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