Abstract
Feminist post-structuralist theory can be taken as a third feminism, historically following on from, but not replacing, liberal feminism and radical feminism (Kristeva, 1981). \\Vhereas liberal feminism mobilizes a discourse of individual rights in order to gain access to the public domain, and radical feminism celebrates and essentializes womanhood in order to counteract the negative constructions of women and girls in masculinist discourse, feminist post-structuralism troubles the binary categories male and female, making visible the constitutive force of linguistic practices, and dismantling their apparent inevitability.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Theory and Methods in Social Research |
| Editors | Bridget Somekh, Cathy Lewin |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Pages | 312-319 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781849200141 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |