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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458106003321

Autore

Lloyd Moya <1960->

Titolo

Beyond identity politics [[electronic resource] ] : feminism, power & politics / / Moya Lloyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2005

ISBN

0-8039-7884-7

1-281-25148-8

9786611251482

1-84787-140-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Difference (Philosophy)

Power (Social sciences)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; introduction: the subject and politics; one: re-imagining the feminist subject; two: accounting for specificity and difference; three: essentialism: a risk worth taking?; four: power and domination; five: agency and resistance; six: the politics of critique; seven: politics and parody; eight: radical democracy and inessential coalitions; conclusion: interrogating the political; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book engages with key contemporary issues such as difference, identity and subjectivity, and their relation to power and politics. Moya Lloyd explores feminist conceptions of power, patriarchy, agency, critique and the political relating to subjectivity.