Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Bec oming

* Major new work in feminist theory, cultural theory and gender studies * Author is well known in the fields of feminism and post--structuralism and for her work on problems of identity and difference.

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The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the 1980s, mainstream feminist circles seem to have turned their back on the staple notions of poststructuralist philosophy. Metamorphoses takes stock of the situation and attempts to reset priorities within the poststructuralist feminist agenda.