<p>An attempt to explore the idea that there are historical sedimentations of people into gendered categories, including the asymmetrical distances of both "women" and "men" from changing ideas of the human; the increasing saturation, from the late seventeenth century, of women with their sex; and the nineteenth century elisions between "the social" and "women". It is argued that feminism cannot but play out the inescapable indeterminacy of "women" whether consciously or not, and that this is made plain in its oscillations, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality and of difference. The author maintains that a full recognition of the ambiguity of the category of "women" is not a semantic doubt, but a condition for an effective feminist political philosophy.</p>

Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of Women in History

Politics & Social Sciences

Denise Riley

Sociology

University of Minnesota Press

WAR IN NURSERY

History

Virago Press Ltd.

The Pity

Steve Ely

Zaffar Kunial

Warsan Shire

John Glenday

Poetry Society

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