Inke Arns on Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:48:38 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Re: <nettime> "feminism equals fascism" |
I would like to recommend you Renata Salecl's brilliant book "The Spoils of Freedom. Psychoanalysis and feminism after the fall of socialism", London & New York: Routledge, 1994. The Spoils of Freedom examines the emergence of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies in post-socialist Eastern Europe. In a political context that includes ethnic wars, post-socialist totalitarianism, capitalist moral majority ideologies, and a virulent new patriarchy, this provocative study asks what has become of the notions of democracy and human rights since the collapse of socialism and challenges the 'political correctness' movement and Western theoretical responses to the events which have occurred in former communist countries. The Spoils of Freedom views major social and political change through contemporary theory. Using psychoanalytic, post-structuralist and feminist theories, Renata Salecl argues that the success of the new nationalist and anti-liberal ideologies can be understood through the Lacanian concept of fantasy, and the willingness of individuals to identify with the hidden fantasies embedded in political discourse. In doing so she offers a new approach to human rights, feminism and other liberal theories grounded in a radical rethinking of the fundamental concepts of philosophy, psychoanalysis and language theory. (cited from the introduction of the editor) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inke Arns * Pestalozzistr. 5 * D-10625 Berlin * Germany Tel / Fax + 49 - 30 - 313 66 78 * inke@is.in-berlin.de http://berlin.icf.de/~inke/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de