Feminist Imagination

Vikki Bell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, university of London.

Affirming Feminism Phantastic Communities and Dangerous Thinking Feminist Political Imagination Suffering Thinking Politics with Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Wright Appearance Thinking Difference in the Political Realm with Hannah Arendt Mimesis as Cultural Survival Judith Butler and Anti-Semitism Essentialism and Embodiment The Politics Behind the Paranoia Conclusion Trauma and Temporality in Genealogical Feminist Critique

'Vikki Bell's book is both philosophically erudite and politically acute. She is an excellent reader of philosophy and literature alike, uncovering the most crucial cultural presumptions in contemporary political discourse. She moves with great skill through Simone de Beavoir, Hannah Arendt, and Richard Wright, making us rethink some of the most basic philosophical notions that inform our ordinary understanding of politics. Her emphasis on temporality and fantasy will provoke us all to think more radically about where we are and where we think we are going' - Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California at Berkeley