Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415908634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 228 str.

Allison Weir

Opis

This text proposes a concept of identity which depends on accepting difference. Through readings of Nancy Chodorow, Judith Rose and Julia Kristeva, the book analyzes the relation of theories of self-identity to theories of women's identity, social identity and feminist solidarity. Drawing particularly on the work of Julia Kristeva, the book argues for a reformulation of self-identity as a capacity to participate in a social world, and sketches a model of a self-identity which depends on a capacity to accept non-identity, difference and connections to others.

Recenzje

"Weir's thesis is elegant and compelling. . .what is fascinating is that we can easily extend Weir's insights to many other theorists who are equally afflicted with the desire to cling on to a sacrificial logic." -- Mechthild Nagel, Mankato State University

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Self-Identity as Domination; Chapter 2 Separation as Domination; Chapter 3 The Paradox of the Self; Chapter 4 The Subversion of Identity; Chapter 5 From the Subversion of Identity to the Subversion of Solidarity?; Chapter 6 ‘Resistance Must Finally Be Articulated in a Voice Which Can Be Heard’; Chapter 7 Toward a Theory of Self and Social Identity; conclusion Conclusion;

O autorze

Allison Weir