Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity
by Allison Weir
Thinking Gender (1996)
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Allison Weir sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of nonidentity, difference, and connection to others, defined as a capacity to participate in a social world. Weir argues that the equation of identity with repression and domination links "relational feminists" like Nancy Chodorow, who equate self-identity with the repression of connection to others, and poststructuralist feminists like Judith Butler, who view any identity as a repression of nonidentity or show more difference. Weir traces this conception of identity as domination back to Simone de Beauvoir's theories of the relation of self and other. show lessTags
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Allison Weir is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies in the Doctoral Program in Political and Social Thought at the University of Western Sydney, and is a member of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of show more Identity. show less
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
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- 305.4201 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women Standard subdivisions
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- HQ1190 .W46 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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