Rebellious Feminism : Camus's Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought

Examining feminism through the lens of Albert Camus's ethic of rebellion, Elizabeth Bartlett provides a significant new interpretation of both philosophies, revealing valuable insights, strategies, and inspiration to grapple with the issues of our day. Identifying four core components of the ethic of rebellion to provide a framework through which disparate strands of feminist theory, ethics, and spirituality can cohere and become useful, Bartlett shows how feminist thought has developed and elucidated the meanings and implications of key concepts of rebellion. Bartlett offers here a hopeful vision of a joyous, life-affirming ethic of "rebellious feminism" that resists oppression and injustice and affirms human dignity, justice and solidarity. "Examining feminism through the lens of Albert Camus's ethic of rebellion, Elizabeth Bartlett provides a significant new interpretation of both philosophies, revealing valuable insights, strategies, and inspiration to grapple with the issues of our day. Identifying four core components of the ethic of rebellion to provide a framework through which disparate strands of feminist theory, ethics, and spirituality can cohere and become useful. Bartlett shows how feminist thought has developed and elucidated the meanings and implications of key concepts of rebellion. Bartlett offers here a hopeful vision of a joyous, life-affirming ethic of "rebellious feminism" that resists oppression and injustice and affirms human dignity, justice and solidarity."--Jacket Annotation In what might seem an unusual pairing, Elizabeth Bartlett brings together the insights of Albert Camus and feminist thought, and in so doing sheds new light on both. Looking through a Camusian lens, Bartlett reveals a "rebellious feminism" that simultaneously refuses oppression and affirms human dignity in solidarity with concrete, diverse others and the earth, giving us new insights into this life-affirming ethic In what might seem an unusual pairing, Barlett brings together the insights of Albert Camus and feminist thought, and in doing so sheds new light on both. Looking through a Camusian lens, Bartlett reveals a 'rebellious feminism' that simultaneously refuses oppression and affirms human dignity in solidarity with concrete, diverse others and the earth, giving us new insights into this life-affirming ethic. Front Matter....Pages I-XV Rebellion and Feminism....Pages 1-21 Epistemological Bases....Pages 23-40 Refusal and Affirmation....Pages 41-58 Claiming One’s Voice....Pages 59-77 Solidarity....Pages 79-110 Friendship....Pages 111-130 Immanence....Pages 131-158 A Politics of Limits and Healing....Pages 159-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-255 Colloquially, we tend to associate the term "rebellion" with spontaneous political uprisings-movements that protest against blind no-saying; negative activity that usually begins in hostility and ends in destruction.