{"product_id":"the-essential-difference-9780253350930","title":"The Essential Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is essentialism? What is anti-essentialism? The Essential Difference attempts to answer questions at the heart of current feminist theory and cultural study. The book deals with origins and contexts of the debate; relationships between essentialism, anti-essentialism, and the power of language; reasons for the demonization of essentialism within the academy; the relationship between essentialism and Third World studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays also speculate about whether there can be an anti-essentialist feminism, whether there can in fact be a feminist politics that dispenses with the notion of Woman. This long-awaited volume questions the bases of feminism itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors are Teresa de Lauretis, Diana Fuss, Elizabeth Grosz, Luce Irigaray, Leslie Wahl Rabine, Ellen Rooney, Robert Scholes, Naomi Schor, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Naomi Schor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.18w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253350930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNAOMI SCHOR is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature at Duke University. Her books include Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction, Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine, and George Sand and Idealism. With Elizabeth Weed she is founding co-editor of differences. ELIZABETH WEED is Associate Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She is the editor of Coming to Terms: Feminism--Theory--Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40078488010867,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_112a46b1-a023-4c48-863c-0dbfdc604f6a.jpg?v=1652191414","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-essential-difference-9780253350930","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}