Weir, Allison <br/><br/>
Identities and freedom :  feminist theory between power and connection / 
Allison Weir 
 - Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  c2013. 
 - x, 176 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Studies in feminist philosophy .
<br/><br/> Formerly CIP. 
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<br/><br/>Who are we?: modern identities between Taylor and Foucault -- Home and identity: in memory of Iris Marion Young -- Global feminism and transformative identity politics -- Transforming women -- Feminism and the Islamic revival: freedom as a practice of belonging. 
<br/><br/> How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? In Identities and Freedom, Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young, and others, Weir develops a complex and nuanced account of identities that takes seriously the ways in which identity categories are bound up with power relations, with processes of subjectionand exclusion, yet argues that identities are also sources of important values, and of freedom, for they are shaped and sustained by relations of interdependence and solidarity. Moving out of the paradox of identity and freedom requires understanding identities as effects of multiple contesting relations of power and relations of interdependence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199936861 9780199936885 (pbk.) : 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012023592 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Identity (Philosophical concept)<br/>Women--Identity<br/>Liberty<br/>Feminist theory
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>126.082