Baudrillard's Challenge
A Feminist Reading

Baudrillard's Challenge will be essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory.

Drawing on the full range of Baudrillard's writings the author engages in a debate with:
*the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti on identity, power and desire
*the feminist concern with 'difference' as an emancipatory constuct
*writings on transgenderism and the performance of gemder
*Lfeminist concerns about the objectification of women Through this critical engagement Grace reveals some of the limitations of some contemporary feminist theorising around gender and identity, patriarchy and power, and in so doing offers a way forward for contemporary feminist thought. Baudrillard's Challenge will be essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory.

Ideologies of meaning and value
the fictions of identity, power and desire
simulated "difference", simulated "politics"
hyperreal genders
the inevitable seduction
feminism and the power dissolution.