Gender of Critical Theory - On the Experiential Grounds of Critique

A major new contribution to the Frankfurt School of critical theory drawing on feminist work on gender.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Unmasking Power: Experience, Gender and Oppression


• 2: Experience at the Limits of Justification


• 3: Recognition and Progress in the Family


• 4: The Politics of Disclosure


• 5: Critique and the 'Merely Experienced'


• 6: The Incompatibility of Formalism and Negativism


• Conclusion: Theorising from Experience

About the author

Lois McNay is Professor of the Theory of Politics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College. She works on French and German critical theory and its intersections with feminist ideas of gender. Her previous books include: Foucault and Feminism (Polity 1992), Gender and Agency (Polity 2000), Against Recognition (2008) and The Misguided Search for the Political (2014).

Summary

A major new contribution to the Frankfurt School of critical theory drawing on feminist work on gender.

Additional text

A meticulous and carefully argued presentation.

Product details

• Authors: Lois McNay, Lois (Professor of the Theory of Politics Mcnay, McNay Lois
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780198857754
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885775-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Political science & theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Political science and theory