Constituting Feminist Subjects

Constituting Feminist Subjects
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781786636034
ISBN-13 : 1786636034
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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 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity, Kathi Weeks contends that the limited nature of that discussion now blocks the further development of feminist theory. While the problems of an already constituted essentialist subject have become patent, what remains as an ongoing project, Weeks contends, is a theory of the constitution of subjects capable of explaining 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-valorization, the author proposes a nonessential feminist subject—a theory of constituting subjects.


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