Introduction: The New Topography of Space -- The Feminist Imaginary through the Cinematic Imagination -- Three Models of Imagination: As Faculty, as Context, and as Imaginal -- A Genealogy of the Concept of Rape: A Critical Reconstruction of the Patriarchal Social Imaginary -- Anachronisms and Representations as Tools for a Critical Feminist Social Imaginary -- The Lost Promise of Feminist Agency in Modern Political Theories: The Dialectic of Visibility into Invisibility -- Conclusion: The New Road of Visibilities: Overcoming Secrets, Invisibility, and Exclusion.
Summary:
"This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women' s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary"-- Provided by publisher.
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