Telling feminist stories
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Feminist Theory http://fty.sagepub.com Telling feminist storiesClare Hemmings Feminist Theory 2005; 6; 115 DOI: 10.1177/1464700105053690 The online version of this article can be found at: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/2/115
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Feminist Theory Copyright © 2005 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) vol. 6(2): 115–139. 1464–7001 DOI: 10.1177/1464700105053690 www.sagepublications.com
Clare Hemmings London School of Economics
Abstract This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the development of feminist thought as a relentless march of progress or loss. This dominant approach oversimplifies the complex history of Western feminisms, fixes writers and perspectives within a particular decade, and repeatedly (and erroneously) positions poststructuralist feminists as ‘the first’ to challenge the category ‘woman’ as the subject and object