The seduction of feminist theory

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ID4367144
AuthorsErin Amann Holliday-Karre (Qatar University, Qatar, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume16
Issue1
Pages31-48
Publication date2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700114562530
OpenAlexW2071891859
LanguageEN
References cited49

The death of Jean Baudrillard in 2007 brought about a resurgence of feminist scholarship on his work. But in all recent feminist scholarship on Baudrillard, save for Victoria Grace's Baudrillard's Challenge: A Feminist Reading (2000), feminists focus on Baudrillard's later theory of simulation, forestalling any reconsideration of his earlier text Seduction (1979). In this article I argue that a theory of seduction facilitates the unveiling of a hitherto unnoticed strain of feminist writing that proposes an ongoing challenge to masculine power and politics. This strategy of seduction is one that can be traced through a history of modern feminism, from Joan Rivière's concept of 'womanliness' in 'Womanliness as Masquerade' to Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine in 'The Laugh of the Medusa' to Virginia Woolf's 'mulberry tree' in Three Guineas

Aesthetics · Feminism · Feminist theory · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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