The sounds of feminist theory /
In The Sounds of Feminist Theory, Ruth Salvaggio follows a distinctive turn toward the oral and evocative qualities of language in feminist theory. Questioning paradigms of female voice and varied feminist claims to language, she suggests that feminist theorists listen to the ways in which words mea...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1999
Albany : [1999] Albany : c1999 |
| Series: | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
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| Summary: | In The Sounds of Feminist Theory, Ruth Salvaggio follows a distinctive turn toward the oral and evocative qualities of language in feminist theory. Questioning paradigms of female voice and varied feminist claims to language, she suggests that feminist theorists listen to the ways in which words mean more than they ostensibly signify, the ways in which language and epistemology - like sound - are mobile. She calls this theoretical project "Hearing the O, " a process of listening for and seizing those wavering qualities of language that invite changes, often remarkable alterations, in how we think In The Sounds of Feminist Theory, Ruth Salvaggio follows a distinctive turn toward the oral and evocative qualities of language in feminist theory. Questioning paradigms of female voice and varied feminist claims to language, she suggests that feminist theorists listen to the ways in which words mean more than they ostensibly signify, the ways in which language and epistemology - like sound - are mobile. She calls this theoretical project "Hearing the O," a process of listening for and seizing those wavering qualities of language that invite changes, often remarkable alterations, in how we think A range of contemporary feminist critical writers are discussed: Gloria Anzaldua, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jane Flax, Susan Griffin, Donna Haraway, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Elaine Pagels, Adrienne Rich, Eve Sedgwick, Joan Scott, Jane Tompkins, Trinh Minh-ha, and Patricia Williams. Their investment in the oral modulations of words marks not only a provocative engagement with the incommensurability of contemporary theory, but also a turn to the ambiguous and tangled qualities of language - "poetic literacy"--That generate an evocative epistemology |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 151 p.) 1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) viii, 151 pages ; 24 cm Also available in print |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-147) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-147) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-147) and index |
| ISBN: | 0585060290 1438418558 9780585060293 9781438418551 |
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