Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics (Gender and Politics)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Table......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Mapping the \'New Feminist Politics\'......Page 13
Outline of the book......Page 16
1 Current Developments in Feminist Politics......Page 20
Feminist temporalities 1: Decline and deradicalisation......Page 21
Feminist temporalities 2: \'New feminisms\' and feminist re-emergence......Page 26
Feminist temporalities 3: Post-feminism......Page 30
Feminist spatialities 1: Transnational feminisms......Page 32
Feminist spatialities 2: State feminism......Page 37
Feminist radicalities......Page 42
Why radicalism?......Page 47
Mapping the terrain: \'Post-foundational\' challenges to politics......Page 49
Laclau: The role of articulation and equivalence......Page 53
Arendt and Zerilli on politics and \'the social\'......Page 58
Feminism and political imagination......Page 63
Synthesising Laclau and Zerilli......Page 68
Discourse theory and (feminist) political analysis......Page 70
Conclusion: Rethinking \'radicality\'......Page 72
3 The Fawcett Society: The End of the Road for Equality Feminism?......Page 75
\'A jolly good chat\': Fawcett\'s ethos and historical background......Page 76
The question of women\'s political participation and representation......Page 82
The politics of childcare and work-life balance......Page 87
Fawcett\'s rebranding and its aftermath......Page 93
Theorising Fawcett\'s rebranding......Page 104
Fawcett\'s new feminist agenda: Some critical remarks......Page 107
Conclusion......Page 109
4 Women\'s Aid: Professionalised Radicalism?......Page 111
Women\'s Aid: Origins and historical background......Page 112
The present-day Women\'s Aid: A brief overview......Page 114
Women\'s Aid: Success and professionalisation......Page 116
Domestic violence, immigration and anti-racism......Page 124
Domestic violence as a \'figure of the newly thinkable\'......Page 126
Critical assessments: A drift towards the \'new managerialism\'?......Page 132
Conclusion......Page 136
5 The F-word: Cultural Politics and Third-Wave Feminism......Page 138
Feminism and the Internet......Page 140
The F-word: Diversity, inclusiveness and reasserting feminism......Page 141
Cultural politics and feminist individualism......Page 146
Anger, affect and resistance: Contesting feminist depoliticisation......Page 152
Negotiating the third wave......Page 161
Generational disidentifications, or, who\'s afraid of third-wave feminism?......Page 168
Concluding reflections and critical comments......Page 171
Conclusion: The Consequences of Optimism......Page 174
Contemporary feminism and political optimism......Page 175
Optimism, pessimism and \'post-politics\'......Page 177
Theorising political optimism......Page 180
The (re)turn to Gramsci......Page 188
Notes......Page 195
Bibliography......Page 208
Index......Page 229