{"product_id":"feminism-defeated-paperback-softback-9781509566563","title":"Feminism, Defeated (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509566563","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFeminism, Defeated\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKate M. Phelan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509566563, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e266 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A terrific contribution, making sense of something that on the face of it makes no sense: the abandonment of women in the name of feminism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Gilligan, New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A bold, accomplished defence of the claim that women and men are political kinds, challenging social constructionists and gender-critical feminists alike. The book is unusually stimulating both in terms of its radical conclusions and the ingenuity with which they are pursued.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Stock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Phelan's superb critique gets to the heart of how the reactionary feminist position challenges women's agency.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpiked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFeminism has been defeated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for women, it is now for everyone. Once in pursuit of liberation, it now seeks only inclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeminism, Defeated\u003c\/i\u003e, Kate Phelan traces the depoliticization and ultimately, the defeat of feminism. She recovers the second-wave view of men and women as sex-classes, enemies, political kinds, a view more radical than the contemporary view of men and women as social constructs. She also describes how poststructuralism displaced this view and replaced it with another. In this view, the sex\/gender binary constructs men and women, and excludes the gender nonconforming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs this view replaced the second-wave one, the injustice of men’s oppression of women was replaced by that of exclusion, and the goal of women’s liberation was replaced by that of inclusion. Thus did feminism become the trans-inclusionary movement as which we now know it, and Phelan shows that this shift was not the progression of feminism; it was the betrayal of it. In this highly original and persuasive study, she argues that the recent emergence of a new gender-critical feminism presents a moment of opportunity to reclaim feminism’s political project.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: The sexual becomes political\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The poststructural turn\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: In search of a poststructural feminism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Feminism, displaced\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Lies, betrayal, and resistance\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Feminism: political, not metaphysical\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: The loss of the future\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: The emergence of gender-critical feminism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Choosing women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52458455204120,"sku":"9781509566563","price":15.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509566563.jpg?v=1785373427","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/feminism-defeated-paperback-softback-9781509566563","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}