Constituting Feminist Subjects

Constituting Feminist Subjects
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781786636041
ISBN-13 : 1786636042
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Book Synopsis Constituting Feminist Subjects by : Kathi Weeks

Download or read book Constituting Feminist Subjects written by Kathi Weeks and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathi Weeks suggests that one of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop theories of the subject that are adequate to feminist politics. Although the 1980s modernist-postmodernist debate put the problem of feminist subjectivity on the agenda, Weeks contends that limited debate now blocks the further development of feminist theory. Both modernists and postmodernists succeeded in making clear the problems of an already constituted, essentialist subject. What remains as an ongoing project, Weeks contends, is creating a theory of the constitution of subjects to account for the processes of social construction. This book presents one such account. Drawing on a number of different theoretical frameworks, including feminist standpoint theory, socialist feminism and poststructuralist thought, as well as theories of peformativity and self-valorisation, the author proposes a nonessential feminist subject, a theory of constituting subjects.


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