Identity Before Identity Politics

Informationen zum Autor Linda Nicholson is Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext Examines the racial and gender social movements of the 1960s in the context of the traditions from which they evolved. Zusammenfassung Places identity politics in its historical framework! analyzing the evolution of the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity. Linda Nicholson examines how changing ideas about social identity both helped and hindered successive social movements and explains the shift to a new discourse of identity politics in the 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The politics of identity: race and sex before the twentieth century; 2. Freud and the rise of the psychological self; 3. The culture concept and social identity; 4. Before Black Power: constructing an African American identity; 5. Women's identity/women's politics; Epilogue. Identity politics forty years later: assessing their value.

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• Authors: Linda Nicholson, Linda (Washington University Nicholson, Nicholson Linda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521862134
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86213-4
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories