Constituting feminist subjects

A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity, Kathi...

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Main Author: Weeks, Kathi
Format: Printed Book
Published: Brooklyn Verso 2018
Subjects:
Feminist theory.
Subjectivity.
Subject (Philosophy) > Feminism
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