Christine Di Stefano
Biographic Data
| ID | 279303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Di Stefano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Stefano |
| SIGNATURE | DI STEFANO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Configurations of Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory
In this pathbreaking book, Christine Di Stefano offers a new perspective on the dimension of gender in modern political thought in order to elucidate what is specifically masculine in political theory. Attempting to clear some conceptual space for feminist political theory, Di Stefano provides innovative readings of Hobbes, Marx, and J. S. Mill
Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk . By Eugene Victor Wolfenstein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 192p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. It has been a long time coming, but political theorists (at least a few) are finally paying attention to The Souls of Black Folk, described by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein as “one of the masterworks in the African-American/American literary canon” (p. 1). Published in 1903, Souls includes…
Origin Stories in Political Thought: Discourses on Gender, Power, and Citizenship
Origin Stories in Political Thought: Discourses on Gender, Power, and Citizenship. By Joanne H. Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 260p. $50.00. The author's express purpose in this book is “to cast a critical eye on the origins motif as it surfaces in the tradition of political thought” (p. 23). “Political origin stories,” Joanne Wright tells us, “are narratives about the beginnings of politics and power” (p. 3). Origin narrativ…
Book in Review
Feminist Theory Today: An Introduction to Second-Wave Feminism . Judith Evans Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to "Post-Feminism." . Imelda Whelehan Paradoxes of Gender . Judith Lorber
Integrating Gender Into the Political Science Curriculum: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Opportunities
Who the Heck Are We? Theoretical Turns against Gender
Gender skepticism is much in vogue these days.' I am referring to a current and developing challenge to the place of gender as a category of analysis in feminist theory. This challenge comes from two major centers. The first, postmodern, camp charges that gender is a social construct rather than an essential element of identity and calls for its deconstruction. The second source of critical scrutiny is the work of women of color, who find that in…
Dilemmas of Difference: Feminism, Modernity, and Postmodernism
This paper examines the contemporary intersection of postmodernism and feminist theories of gender difference. Three strategic forms for posing the relationship between western feminism and the Enlightenment legacy of humanistic rationalism are examined: feminist rationalism, feminine antirationalism, and feminist postrationalism, and feminist postrationalism. It is argued that the theoretical rigor of postrationalism. It is argued that the theor…
Dilemmas of difference: Feminism, modernity, and postmodernism
Masculinity as ideology in political theory: Hobbesian man considered
Masculinity as ideology in political theory: Hobbesian man considered
Integrating Gender Into the Political Science Curriculum: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Opportunities
Who the Heck Are We? Theoretical Turns against Gender
Gender skepticism is much in vogue these days.' I am referring to a current and developing challenge to the place of gender as a category of analysis in feminist theory. This challenge comes from two major centers. The first, postmodern, camp charges that gender is a social construct rather than an essential element of identity and calls for its deconstruction. The second source of critical scrutiny is the work of women of color, who find that in…
Feminist Theory Today: An Introduction to Second-Wave Feminism . Judith Evans Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to "Post-Feminism." . Imelda Whelehan Paradoxes of Gender . Judith Lorber
Dilemmas of Difference: Feminism, Modernity, and Postmodernism
This paper examines the contemporary intersection of postmodernism and feminist theories of gender difference. Three strategic forms for posing the relationship between western feminism and the Enlightenment legacy of humanistic rationalism are examined: feminist rationalism, feminine antirationalism, and feminist postrationalism, and feminist postrationalism. It is argued that the theoretical rigor of postrationalism. It is argued that the theor…
Masculinity as ideology in political theory: Hobbesian man considered
Dilemmas of Difference: Feminism, Modernity, and Postmodernism
This paper examines the contemporary intersection of postmodernism and feminist theories of gender difference. Three strategic forms for posing the relationship between western feminism and the Enlightenment legacy of humanistic rationalism are examined: feminist rationalism, feminine antirationalism, and feminist postrationalism, and feminist postrationalism. It is argued that the theoretical rigor of postrationalism. It is argued that the theor…
Dilemmas of difference: Feminism, modernity, and postmodernism
Who the Heck Are We? Theoretical Turns against Gender
Gender skepticism is much in vogue these days.' I am referring to a current and developing challenge to the place of gender as a category of analysis in feminist theory. This challenge comes from two major centers. The first, postmodern, camp charges that gender is a social construct rather than an essential element of identity and calls for its deconstruction. The second source of critical scrutiny is the work of women of color, who find that in…
Integrating Gender Into the Political Science Curriculum: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Opportunities
Feminist Theory Today: An Introduction to Second-Wave Feminism . Judith Evans Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to "Post-Feminism." . Imelda Whelehan Paradoxes of Gender . Judith Lorber
Book in Review
Origin Stories in Political Thought: Discourses on Gender, Power, and Citizenship
Origin Stories in Political Thought: Discourses on Gender, Power, and Citizenship. By Joanne H. Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 260p. $50.00. The author's express purpose in this book is “to cast a critical eye on the origins motif as it surfaces in the tradition of political thought” (p. 23). “Political origin stories,” Joanne Wright tells us, “are narratives about the beginnings of politics and power” (p. 3). Origin narrativ…
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk . By Eugene Victor Wolfenstein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 192p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. It has been a long time coming, but political theorists (at least a few) are finally paying attention to The Souls of Black Folk, described by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein as “one of the masterworks in the African-American/American literary canon” (p. 1). Published in 1903, Souls includes…
Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory
Configurations of Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory
In this pathbreaking book, Christine Di Stefano offers a new perspective on the dimension of gender in modern political thought in order to elucidate what is specifically masculine in political theory. Attempting to clear some conceptual space for feminist political theory, Di Stefano provides innovative readings of Hobbes, Marx, and J. S. Mill
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works)