Hegel’s Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone?

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Reading Hegel....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Differing Spirits—Reflections on Hegelian Inspiration in Feminist Theory....Pages 19-37
Queering Hegel: Three Incisions....Pages 39-59
Antigone’s Liminality: Hegel’s Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery....Pages 61-85
Knowing Thyself: Hegel, Feminism and an Ethics of Heteronomy....Pages 87-107
Longing for Recognition....Pages 109-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Beyond Tragedy: Tracing the Aristophanian Subtext of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit....Pages 133-151
Reading the Same Twice Over: The Place of the Feminine in the Time of Hegelian Spirit....Pages 153-175
Womanlife or Lifework and Psycho-technique: Woman as the Figure of the Plasticity of Transcendence....Pages 177-194
The Gender of Spirit: Hegel’s Moves and Strategies....Pages 195-209
Matter and Form: Hegel, Organicism, and the Difference between Women and Men....Pages 211-232
Debating Hegel’s Legacy for Contemporary Feminist Politics....Pages 233-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-271