The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory by Amy Allen

The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory

Amy Allen

230 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction feminism philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that ...

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