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Julia Kristeva's Feminist Revolutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Kelly Oliver
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Julia Kristeva is known as rejecting feminism, nonetheless her work is useful for feminist theory. I reconsider Kristeva's rejection of feminism and her theories of difference, identity, and maternity, elaborating on Kristeva's contributions to debates over the necessity of identity politics, indicating how Kristeva's theory suggests the cause of and possible solutions to women's oppression in Western culture, and, using Kristeva's theory, setting up a framework for a feminist rethinking of politics and ethics.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993, pp. 94 - 114
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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