{"title":"Introduction: Women in Theory","authors":"Erin Graff Zivin","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this special issue, then, we propose an experiment: what would happen if “women” who work in “theory” (in the broadest, wildest sense of both terms) were to thematize and discuss the question of women in theory? How does this issue inflect literary studies and related fields? Here, scholars whose work emerges from distinct areas of critical theory and philosophy—deconstruction, Marxism, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, classical philosophy, political theory, media theory, in short: areas of “theory” in which women are comparatively scarce—come together to engage with the problem of gender in philosophy and critical theory from and through their methodological and conceptual areas of interest.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0023","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:In this special issue, then, we propose an experiment: what would happen if “women” who work in “theory” (in the broadest, wildest sense of both terms) were to thematize and discuss the question of women in theory? How does this issue inflect literary studies and related fields? Here, scholars whose work emerges from distinct areas of critical theory and philosophy—deconstruction, Marxism, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, classical philosophy, political theory, media theory, in short: areas of “theory” in which women are comparatively scarce—come together to engage with the problem of gender in philosophy and critical theory from and through their methodological and conceptual areas of interest.
期刊介绍:
For over thirty years, diacritics has been an exceptional and influential forum for scholars writing on the problems of literary criticism. Each issue features articles in which contributors compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop their own positions on the theses, methods, and theoretical implications of those works.