Concepts of the self
By: Anthony Elliott
Series: Key concepts; Key concepts (Polity Press)
Publisher: Polity Press; Blackwell Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Self
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: Concepts of the self. The structure of the book; title: Self, society and everyday life. Self, symbols and others : symbolic interactionism. Presentations of self : Goffman. Reflexivity and the self : Giddens; title: The repression of self. Psychoanalysis and the self. Culture and repression; title: Technologies of the self. Technologies of the self : Foucault. New technologies, new selves; title: Self, sexuality and gender. Feminism and psychoanalysis : two recent views. The politics of gender performance : Butler. Queer theory : contesting self, defying gender; title: The postmodern self. All that is modern melts into postmodern? Strategies of the self : modern and postmodern; title: Conclusion. Inner depth, or inside out. Identity politics, or critique of self