Constituting Feminist Subjects

Author(s): Kathi Weeks

Feminism & Womens Studies

A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject


Kathi Weeks suggests that one of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop theories of the subject that are adequate to feminist politics. Although the 1980s modernist-postmodernist debate put the problem of feminist subjectivity on the agenda, Weeks contends that limited debate now blocks the further development of feminist theory.


Both modernists and postmodernists succeeded in making clear the problems of an already constituted, essentialist subject. What remains as an ongoing project, Weeks contends, is creating a theory of the constitution of subjects to account for the processes of social construction. This book presents one such account. Drawing on a number of different theoretical frameworks, including feminist standpoint theory, socialist feminism and poststructuralist thought, as well as theories of peformativity and self-valorization, the author proposes a non-essential feminist subject, a theory of constituting subjects.

September 2018


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781786636034
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Verso Trade
  • : 0.368317
  • : July 2018
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  • : September 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 208
  • : 305.42
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Kathi Weeks