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Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics

by Moya Lloyd

Feminist politics and the question of the subject

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Feminist politics and the question of the subject

Moya Lloyd examines a central debate in contemporary feminist theory: how ideas of identity, difference, and subjectivity shape the possibility of political action. Organized around subjectivity, power, and politics, the book considers what theories of a changing, processual subject mean for accounts of patriarchy and feminist politics. Lloyd argues that rethinking the subject does not require abandoning feminist politics; instead, it reshapes concepts such as agency, power, and domination, and places critique at the center of feminist political theory. The discussion connects theoretical questions about identity to broader debates in political and social thought.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Feminist theory readers interested in identity, subjectivity, and political action
  • Students of women’s and gender studies
  • Readers of political and social theory

Themes

Feminist politicsSubjectivity and identityPower and dominationAgencyCritique

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Book overview

Recent debates in contemporary feminist theory have been dominated by the relation between identity and politics. Beyond Identity Politics examines the implications of recent theorizing on difference, identity and subjectivity for theories of patriarchy and feminist politics.

 

 

Organised around the three central themes of subjectivity, power and politics, this book focuses on a question which feminists struggled with and were divided by throughout the last decade, that is: how to theorize the relation between the subject and politics. In this thoughtful engagement with these debates Moya Lloyd argues that the turn to the subject in process does not entail the demise of feminist politics as many feminists have argued. She demonstrates how key ideas such as agency, power and domination take on a new shape as a consequence of this radical rethinking of the subject-politics relation and how the role of feminist political theory becomes centred upon critique.

 

A resource for feminist theorists, women′s and gender studies students, as well as political and social theorists, this is a carefully composed and wide-ranging text, which provides important insights into one of contemporary feminism′s most central concerns.

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