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Subverting Essentialisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Eléanor H. Kuykendall
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A critical analysis of Diana Fuss's Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference (1989a) and Elizabeth Grosz's Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (1989).

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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and the Body , Fall 1991 , pp. 208 - 217
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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