Title: Postmodern feminism - Wikipedia
Headings: Postmodern feminism
Postmodern feminism
Contents
Origins and theory
Butler
Frug
French feminism
Critiques
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

Content: Postmodern feminists analyze these notions and attempt to promote equality of gender through critiquing logocentrism, supporting multiple discourses, deconstructing texts, and seeking to promote subjectivity. Postmodern feminists are accredited with drawing attention to dichotomies in society and demonstrating how language influences the difference in treatment of genders. The inclusion of postmodern theory into feminist theory is not readily accepted by all feminists—some believe postmodern thought undermines the attacks that feminist theory attempts to create, while other feminists are in favor of the union. For this reason, postmodernism and feminism have always had an uneasy relationship. Contents
1 Origins and theory
1.1 Butler
1.2 Frug
1.3 French feminism
2 Critiques
3 See also
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 External links
Origins and theory
Butler
Postmodern feminism's major departure from other branches of feminism is perhaps the argument that sex, or at least gender, is itself constructed through language, a view notably propounded in Judith Butler 's 1990 book, Gender Trouble. She draws on and critiques the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, as well as on Luce Irigaray 's argument that what we conventionally regard as 'feminine' is only a reflection of what is constructed as masculine. Butler criticises the distinction drawn by previous feminisms between (biological) sex and (socially constructed) gender. She asks why we assume that material things (such as the body) are not subject to processes of social construction themselves. Butler argues that this does not allow for a sufficient criticism of essentialism: though recognizing that gender is a social construct, feminists assume it is always constructed in the same way.