Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing a sea change in intellectual thought. The main features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality, discourse and materiality. Hekman
An exploration of the intersection between the work of Michel Foucault and feminist theory, focusing on Foucault's theories of sex/body, identity/subject, and power/politics.Like the other books in th
In this book Susan Hekman aims to bring greater theoretical clarity to the debate of identity by exposing some basic conceptions--about the constitution of the self that defines personal identity unde
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for femin