Feminism after Bourdieu / edited by Lisa Adkins and Beverley Skeggs. - vi, 258 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Feminism, Bourdieu and after / Context and background : Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of class, gender and sexuality / Bourdieu, class and gender : "the return of the living dead?" / Gendering Bourdieu's concept of capitals? : emotional capital, women and social class / Exchange, value and affect : Bourdieu and 'the self' / Notes on 'what not to wear' and post-feminist symbolic violence / Rules of engagement : habitus, power and resistance / Habitus and social suffering : culture, addiction and the syringe / Mapping the obituary : notes towards a Bourdieusian interpretation / Agency and experience : gender as a lived relation / Reflexivity : freedom or habit of gender? / Anamnesis and amnesis in Bourdieu's work : the case for a feminist anamnesis / Shame in the habitus / Lisa Adkins -- Beverly Skeggs -- Terry Lovell -- Diane Reay -- Beverly Skeggs -- Angela McRobbie -- Steph Lawler -- Nicole Vitellone -- Bridget Fowler -- Lois McNay -- Lisa Adkins -- Anne Witz -- Elspeth Probyn. Introduction :

Exploring the key feminist issues such as performativity, affect, habit, respectability, shame, pain, testimony, suffering, resentment and ressentiment, this work is a collection of essays bringing Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical world face to face with feminist theorizing.

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Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002


Feminist theory.

HQ1190 / .F41755 2004

305.4201