Ambivalence as a Feminist Project.
This essay argues that the concept of ambivalence could be leveraged as a feminist project with specific epistemological value for scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Curating its recent appearance across several areas of study, we suggest the potential of ambivalence as a feminist a...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 779 - 806 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer2024
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