Unruly Practices Power, Discorse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory

Name: Unruly Practices Power, Discorse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory
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ISBN: 9780816617784

ISBN-10: 0816617783

ISBN-13: 9780816617784

Edition: 1989

Authors: Nancy Fraser

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Fraser (philosophy and literature, Northwestern U.) deals with varied forms of dominance and subordination in modern, industrial, and late- capitalist societies. She considers state-bureaucratic forms of organization, the institutional politics of knowledge and expertise, and the structure and function of social-welfare programs. Cloth edition (unseen), $35. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation:



Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions



Michael Foucault: A 'Young Conservative'?



Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric?



On the Political and the Symbolic:



The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?



Solidarity or Singularity?: Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy



Gender and the Politics of Need Interpretation:



What's Critical about Critical Theory?


The Case of Habermas and Gender



Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation



Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical


Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture


Index