Feminist Theory

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has been co-editor-in-chief of Contemporary Political Theory since 2010.

Chapter 1: Editor's Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir's Les bouches inutiles., - Chapter 3: On ne nai t pas femme: On le devient: The life of a sentence.- Chapter 4: The ''Agonistic Turn'': Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics in New Contexts.- Chapter 5: A feminist theory of refusal.- Chapter 6: Toni Morrison and political theory.- Chapter 7: New forms of revolt: Essays on Kristeva's intimate politics.- Chapter 8: Wayward lives, beautiful experiments:Intimate histories of social upheaval.- Chapter 9: Agonistic mourning: Political dissidence and the Women in Black.- Chapter 10: The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault's lectures on parrhesia.- Chapter 11: Sex wars, SlutWalks, and carceral feminism.- Chapter 12: Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history.- Chapter 13: Feminist sexual futures.- Chapter 14: Les Aveux de la chair. Vol. 4 of L'Histoire de la sexualite.- Chapter 15 The right to sex.- Chapter 16: Lauren Berlant's legacy in contemporary political theory.- Chapter 17: Queer Terror: Life, death, and desire in the settler colony.- Chapter 18: Living a feminist life.- Chapter 19: Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt's Vita Activa.- Chapter 20: Epilogue.