Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory - Softcover

Fraser, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745603912 ISBN 13: 9780745603919

Publisher: Polity, 1990

Synopsis

Unruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together, they constitute a sustained critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a new and original socialist--feminist critical theory that overcomes many of the limitations of current alternatives. First, in a series of critical essays, she deploys philosophical and literary techniques to assess the work of Michael Foucault, the French deconstructionists, Richard Rorty, and Jurgen Habermas. Then, in a group of constructive essays, she incorporates their respective strengths in a new critical theory of late--capitalist political culture. Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the previously divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism. Thematically, she deals with varied forms of dominance and subordination in modern, industrial, late--capitalist societies. These themes are integrated in an original theory of a the politics of need interpretation.a This concept becomes the linchpin of the socialist--feminist critical theory.

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Product Description:

Unruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together,they constitute a sustained critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory.

Review:

"A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of nicely linked essays on important current thinkers and social movements." Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0745603912
• ISBN 13: 9780745603919
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212