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"Adorno is central to our understanding of Modernism. Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies. Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno's social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, "Adorno's Keywords," is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to "Adorno and Aesthetics." While Adorno's philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, "Adorno's Constellations," discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis"--

Introduction to literature and the development of feminist theory / by Robin Truth Goodman -- "Original spirit": literary translations and translational literature in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft / by Laura Kirley -- Jane Eyre, incidents in the life of a slave girl, and the varieties of nineteenth-century feminism / by Margaret Homans -- Progressive portraits: literature in feminisms of Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Olive Schreiner / by Judith A. Allen -- Feminist poetics: first-wave feminism, theory, and modernist women poets / by Linda Kinnahan -- Woolf and women's work: literary invention in an obscure hat factory / by Robin Truth Goodman -- Walking in a man's world: myth, literature, and the interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex / by Ashley King Scheu -- Decapitation impossible: the hundred heads of Julia Kristeva / by Maria Margaroni -- Shattering the gender walls: Monique Wittig's contribution to literature / by Dominique Bourque -- Hélène Cixous: writing for her life / by Peggy Kamuf -- Subversive creatures from behind the iron curtain: Irmtraud Morgner's The life and adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as chronicled by her minstrel Laura / by Sonja E. Klocke -- Christa Wolf: literature as an aesthetics of resistance / by Anna K. Kuhn -- Naked came the female extraterrestrial stranger: applying Linda M. Scott's Fresh lipstick to Sue Lange's The textile planet / by Marleen S. Barr -- Captive maternal love: Octavia Butler and science fiction family values / by Joy James -- More than theatre: Cherríe Moraga's The hungry woman and the feminist phenomenology of excess / by Lakey -- Nawal El Saadawi: writer and revolutionary / by Miriam Cooke -- "The woman who said "no": colonialism, Islam, and feminist resistance in the works of Assia Djebar / by Jane Hiddleston

Labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance and shown that feminist theory must reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing representations of how the symbolic power of gender is in the service of neoliberal practices. Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA.

Recently, labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance. In response, feminist theory urgently needs to reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing how the symbolic power of gender is put in the service of neoliberal practices. Goodman traces the cultural contextualization of 'women's work' from its Marxist roots to its current practices. From the income gap to the gendering of industries, Goodman explores and critiques the rise of corporate power under neoliberalism and the ways and whys that femininity has become one of its principle commodities.

Argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public responding to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public.