Feminism After Bourdieu

For all his pre–eminence, Pierre Bourdieu had little to say about women or gender. Such an absence seems ultimately fatal. Yet as this volume amply demonstrates, the richness of his social theory can be opened up by contemporary feminism.
Feminism After Bourdieu comprises a series of interventions by key feminist thinkers. These reflect upon the legacies of Bourdieu to critique and critically extend his social theory. In addressing many of the most pressing issues of our time, they also help to develop contemporary issues for feminist theory.
What emerges is a transformation of Bourdieu’s social and cultural theory. So that in addition to offering new insights for feminist theory, this research monograph also marks new territories for social and cultural theory.

Spis treści:
Introductions:.
1. Feminism, Bourdieu and After: Lisa Adkins.
2. Introducing Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of class, gender and sexuality: Beverley Skeggs.
Section I: Rethinking Class and Gender:.
3. Bourdieu, Class and Gender: ‘The return of the living dead?’:Terry Lovell.
4. Gendering Bourdieu’s Concept of Capitals? Emotional Capital, Women and.
Social Class: Diane Reay.
5. Exchange Value and Affect: Bourdieu and the Self: Beverley Skeggs.
Section II: Symbolic Violence and the Cultural Field:.
6. Notes on: ‘What Not To Wear’ and Post–Feminist Symbolic Violence: Angela McRobbie.
7. Rules of Engagement: Habitus, Power and Resistance: Steph Lawler.
8. Habitus and social suffering: Culture, Addiction and the Syringe: Nicole Vitellone.
9. Mapping the Obituary: Notes Towards a Bourdieusian Interpretation: Bridget Fowler.
Section III: Retheorizing the Habitus:.
10. Agency and Experience: Gender as a Lived Relation: Lois McNay.
11. Reflexivity: Freedom or Habit of Gender?: Lisa Adkins.
12. Anamnesis and Amnesis in Bourdieu’s Work: Th e Case for a Feminist Anamnesis: Anne Witz.
13. Shame in the Habitus: Elspeth Probyn.

Nota biograficzna:
Lisa Adkins is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her previous books include Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity (2002), Gendered Work (Second Edition, 1997), Sexualizing the Social (1996) and Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body (1996).
Beverley Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London. Her previous publications include Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (2004), Class, Self, Culture (2004), Transformations: Thinking through Feminism (2000) and Formations of Class and Gender (1997).

Okładka tylna:
For all his pre–eminence, Pierre Bourdieu had little to say about women or gender. Such an absence seems ultimately fatal. Yet as this volume amply demonstrates, the richness of his social theory can be opened up by contemporary feminism.
Feminism After Bourdieu comprises a series of interventions by key feminist thinkers. These reflect upon the legacies of Bourdieu to critique and critically extend his social theory. In addressing many of the most pressing issues of our time, they also help to develop contemporary issues for feminist theory.
What emerges is a transformation of Bourdieu’s social and cultural theory. So that in addition to offering new insights for feminist theory, this research monograph also marks new territories for social and cultural theory.