Identities and freedom
Subtitle: feminist theory between power and connection
By: Allison Weir
Series: Studies in feminist philosophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780199936861; 9780199936885; 9780199936878
Subjects: Feminist theory; Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity; Liberty; Women
Description: "How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? In Identities and Freedom, 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. Moving out of the paradox of identity and freedom requires understanding identities as effects of multiple contesting relations of power and relations of interdependence."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: Who are we?: modern identities between Taylor and Foucault; title: Home and identity: in memory of Iris Marion Young; title: Global feminism and transformative identity politics; title: Transforming women; title: Feminism and the Islamic revival: freedom as a practice of belonging.