Identities and Freedom: Feminist Theory Between Power and Connection
Identities and Freedom: Feminist Theory Between Power and Connection
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Author(s): Weir, Allison
ISBN No.: 9780199936878
Pages: 192
Year: 201302
Format: E-Book
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How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young, and others, Weir develops a complex and nuanced account of identities that takes seriously the ways in which identity categories are bound up with power relations, with processes of subjection and exclusion, yet argues that identities are also sources of important values, and of freedom, for they are shaped and sustained by relations of interdependence and solidarity.


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