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Bronte Adams

Volatile Bodies: Towards a corporeal feminism by Elizabeth Grosz

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October 1994, no. 165
Bronte Adams reviews 'Volatile Bodies: Towards a corporeal feminism' by Elizabeth Grosz

Volatile Bodies is an important book: its challenge is nothing less than the development of a non-essentialist, feminist philosophy of the body.

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Humanism: The Wreck of Western Culture by John Carroll

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April 1994, no. 159
Bronte Adams reviews 'Humanism: The Wreck of Western Culture' by John Carroll

When Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth appeared in Britain, British feminists asked, ‘where has Naomi Wolf been for the last 20 years?’ The same question might well be asked of John Carroll. His assessment of humanism seems imperiously oblivious to structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of the humanist edifice.

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