Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist PoliticsIn Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory--a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and "lived" experiences. Through her original readings of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers--including Sartre, Fanon, and Merleau-Ponty--and her own analyses inspired by their work, Kruks sheds new light on central problems in feminist theory and politics. These include debates about subjectivity and individual agency; questions about recognition and identity politics; and discussion of whether embodied experiences may sometimes facilitate solidarity among groups of different women. |
Contents
Freedoms That Matter Subjectivity and Situation in the Work of Beauvoir Sartre and MerleauPonty | 27 |
Panopticism and Shame Foucault Beauvoir and Feminism | 52 |
The Politics of Recognition Sartre Fanon and Identity Politics | 79 |
Identity Politics and Dialectical Reason Beyond an Epistemology of Provenance | 107 |
Going Beyond Discourse Feminism Phenomenology and Womens Experience | 131 |
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Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics Sonia Kruks Limited preview - 2018 |
Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics Sonia Kruks No preview available - 2001 |