Feminists Evaluate Bourdieu

International Perspectives

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Edited by Lisa Adkins and Bev Skeggs

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published February 2005, 250 pages, paper

ISBN 1405123958

In this collection feminist social and cultural theorists offer evaluations of the theoretical legacy of Pierre Bourdieu. Including critical evaluations of Bourdieu's key concepts and methodological stance as well as adoptions and adaptations of these concepts, the collection is unique in providing a systematic appraisal of Bourdieu's social theory via the concerns of contemporary feminism. Offering explorations of key feminist issues such as performativity, affect, habit, respectability, shame, pain, testimony, suffering, resentment and ressentiment, this collection brings Bourdieu's theoretical world face to face with feminist theorizing. The collection therefore offers a major intervention in the field of contemporary social theory.

Series:Sociological Review Monographs