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By Allison Weir

ISBN-10: 0199936862

ISBN-13: 9780199936861

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How will we take into consideration identities within the wake of feminist opinions of id and identification politics? In Identities and Freedom, Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of person and collective identities in terms of freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, younger, and others, Weir develops a fancy and nuanced account of identities that takes heavily the ways that identification different types are sure up with strength kin, with procedures of subjection and exclusion, but argues that identities also are resources of vital values, and of freedom, for they're formed and sustained by way of kinfolk of interdependence and team spirit. relocating out of the anomaly of identification and freedom calls for knowing identities as results of a number of contesting relatives of strength and kin of interdependence.

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