| Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity Contributor(s): Weir, Allison (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415908639 ISBN-13: 9780415908634 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1995 Annotation: Contemporary feminist theory is at an impasse: the project of reformulating concepts of self and social identity is thwarted by an association between identity and oppression and victimhood. In "Sacrificial Logics," Allison Weir proposes a way out of this impasse through a concept of identity which depends on accepting difference. 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 and difference. Through readings of Chodorow, Butler, Jessica Benjamin, Luce Irigaray, Jacqueline Rose and Julia Kristeva, Weir analyzes the relation of theories of self-identity to theories of women's identity, social identity, the identity of meaning in language and feminist solidarity. Drawing particularly on the work of Julia Kristeva, she argues for a reformulation of self-identity as a capacity to participate in a social world, and sketches a model of a self-identity which depends on a capacity to accept nonidentity, difference and connections to others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Philosophy - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 95008033 |
| Series: Thinking Gender |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.02" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 difference. Weir traces this conception of identity as domination back to Simone de Beauvoir's theories of the relation of self and other. |