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Constituting Feminist Subjects
Paperback Edition: 1
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.
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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.
Pages : 196
Publisher : Verso Books
Publication date : 2018-09-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology, Feminism & Feminist Theory