Identities and Freedom: Feminist Theory Between Power and Connection

New York, US: Oxford University Press (2013)
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How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom.

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Identities and Freedom develops a complex 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 fre... see more

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