| The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism Contributor(s): Salecl, Renata (Author) |
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ISBN: 041507357X ISBN-13: 9780415073578 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1994 Annotation: This book examines the emergence of nationalist, racist and antifeminist ideologies in post-socialist Eastern Europe. In a political context that includes ethnic wars, post-socialist totalitarianism, capitalist moral majority ideologies, and a virulent new patriarchy, this provocative study asks what has become of the notions of democracy and human rights since the collapse of socialism and challenges the 'political correctness' movement and Western theoretical responses to the events which have occurred in former communist countries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 93033919 |
| Series: Opening Out |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.35" W x 9.53" (0.90 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political changes in post-communist Eastern Europe require a radical re-evaluation of notions of liberal theories of democracy. In doing so she offers a new approach to human rights and feminism grounded in her own active partipation in the struggles, first against communism and now against nationalism and anti-feminism. |