States of Injury Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

Name: States of Injury Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
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ISBN: 9780691029894

ISBN-10: 069102989X

ISBN-13: 9780691029894

Edition: 1995

Authors: Wendy Brown

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Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection. "Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands," writes Brown, "the heavy price of institutionalized protection is always a measure of…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/23/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Freedom and the Plastic Cage



Postmodern Exposures, Feminist Hesitations



Wounded Attachments



The Mirror of Pornography



Rights and Losses



Liberalism's Family Values



Finding the Man in the State


Index