Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (Thinking Gender)

Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (Thinking Gender)

by Allison Weir (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12 Dec 1995

ISBN 10: 0415908639
ISBN 13: 9780415908634

Media Reviews
Weir's thesis is elegant and compelling. . .what is fascinating is that we can easily extend Weir's insights to many other theorists who are equally afflicted with the desire to cling on to a sacrificial logic..
- Mechthild Nagel, Mankato State University