By Joan Cocks

ISBN-10: 0415635209

ISBN-13: 9780415635202

ISBN-10: 0415754283

ISBN-13: 9780415754286

The Oppositional Imagination attracts jointly components from Marxism, analytical philosophy, post-structuralism, and post-colonial feedback to examine the elusive interaction of tradition and tool. It focuses its cognizance on cultural domination, competition and evasion within the realm of intercourse and gender.


Joan Cocks displays on questions an important to either political theorists and feminists: the connection among political thought and sensible lifestyles; the potential for bringing jointly a philosophical and a literary language to realize and evoke concrete adventure; and the reconciliation of radical political dedication with an appreciation of colors of gray within the social international. She explores the range of how within which strength and eroticism intersect; the releasing and tyrannical impulses of marginal cultures; and where of the loyalist, the eccentric, the critic, the traitor, and the insurgent within the sexual struggle.


The Oppositional Imagination reaffirms the centrality of political thought and feminist perform whereas while tough convinced in their key rules in thought-provoking ways.

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