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Identity without selfhood : Simone de Beauvoir and bisexuality /
Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western te...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self-realisation and narrative. In a detailed study of biographical, media and academic representations of Simone de Beauvoir, Dr Fraser illustrates that bisexuality, by contrast, is discursively produced as an identity which exceeds the confines of the self and especially the individuality ascribed to de Beauvoir. In the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the self, the argument presented in the book also offers a critique of Foucault's work from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511005644 9780511005640 0511035373 9780511035371 9780511583414 0511583419 1280418915 9781280418914 0511172257 9780511172250 0511310129 9780511310126 0511050615 9780511050619 1107115019 9781107115019 |