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What is essentialism? What is anti-essentialism? The Essential Differenceattempts to answer questions at the heart of current feminist theory and culturalstudy. The book deals with origins and contexts of the debate, relationships betweenessentialism, anti-essentialism, and the power of language, reasons for thedemonization of essentialism within the academy, the relationship betweenessentialism and Third World studies. The essays also specula...

An approach to critical thinking that inhabits, elaborates, and feeds on scientific theory, holding feminist theory accountable to science and vice versa

This special issue of differences celebrates the work of the contemporary feminist literary critic and theorist Barbara Johnson, whose work has been revolutionary in foregrounding concepts of "difference.