| "We
translate what American women write, they never translate our texts,"
wrote Hélène Cixous almost two decades ago. Her complaint about the
unavailability of French feminist writing in English has long since
been rectified, but the situation for feminist writing by German-speaking
philosophers remains today what it was then. This pioneering collection
takes a giant step forward to overcoming this handicap, revealing
the full richness and variety of feminist critique ongoing in this
linguistic community. The essays offer fresh readings of thinkers
from the Enlightenment to the present, including those often discussed
by feminists everywhere—such as Freud, Habermas, Hegel, Kant, and
Rousseau—as well as some less subjected to feminist critique such
as Benjamin and Weininger.
In their Introduction, the editors provide the context for understanding
both how these essays fit into the larger picture of developing
feminist theory and what makes their contribution in some ways distinctive. |
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