Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity

Allison Weir, Associate Professor School of Humanities and Languages and Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy Allison Weir

Psychology Press, 1996 - Philosophy - 216 pages

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.

Contents

• From the Subversion of Identity: 112
• Resistance Must Finally Be Articulated: 135
• Conclusion: 184
• Bibliography: 204

About the author

Writer Alison Weir received training to be a teacher with a concentration in history from the North Western Polytechnic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a civil servant and ran her own school for children with learning difficulties from 1991 to 1997. Her first book, Britain's Royal Families, was published in 1989. She is primarily a non-fiction author who writes about British royalty. Her books included The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Children of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry VIII: King and Court; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Isabella. Her first novel, Innocent Traitor, was published in 2006. In 2008 her second novel, The Lady Elizabeth, was published. Her works also include The Lady in the Tower - The Fall of Anne Boleyn (this book concerns the last four months of Anne Boleyn's life), The Captive Queen and A Dangerous Inheritance . She lives in Surrey, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity; Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity, Allison Weir; Thinking gender
• Authors: Allison Weir, Associate Professor School of Humanities and Languages and Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy Allison Weir
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0415908639, 9780415908634
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General