Breaking Feminist Waves: Reappraising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics

Gillman, L.

In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman advances a comparative theoretical model of identity and consciousness that foregrounds a naturalist-realist account. She demonstrates that reason and knowledge originate from diverse human practices enacted in the social and natural world and can be explained and justified entirely in terms of them.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-08-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349384655

DOI: 10.1057/9780230109926

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 242