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Duke University Press Books (2004), 336 pages
Description
Prominent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures: Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson.
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LibraryThing member LizaHa
the conclusion especially made me feel kind of ecstatic!
"History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and
“The resources of the previously oppressed - of women under patriarchy, of slaves under slavery, of minorities under racism, colonialism, or nationalism, of workers under capitalism, and so on -are not lost or wiped out through the structures of domination that helped to define them: they are preserved somewhere, in the past itself, with effects and traces that can be animated in a number of different contexts and terms in the present" (240).
"History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and
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is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present" (237). “The resources of the previously oppressed - of women under patriarchy, of slaves under slavery, of minorities under racism, colonialism, or nationalism, of workers under capitalism, and so on -are not lost or wiped out through the structures of domination that helped to define them: they are preserved somewhere, in the past itself, with effects and traces that can be animated in a number of different contexts and terms in the present" (240).
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Original language
English
Physical description
336 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
082233397X / 9780822333975
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Philosophy
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