Publication

2013 - Oxford University Press, New York, USA, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

44,000 words, Guess

Page Count

176 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC126.082
  • LCCBD236 .W45 2013

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in feminist philosophy

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