Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity

Thinking Gender

by Allison Weir

Allison Weir sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of nonidentity, difference, and connection to others, defined as a capacity to participate in a social world. Weir argues that the equation of identity with repression and domination links "relational feminists" like Nancy Chodorow, who equate self-identity with the repression of connection to others, and poststructuralist feminists like Judith Butler, who view any identity as a repression of nonidentity or difference. Weir traces this conception of identity as domination back to Simone de Beauvoir's theories of the relation of self and other.

228 pages, Hardcover

First published December 12, 1995

Reviews

[Jennavier]

I don't normally feel stupid, but when I do it's because I read books like this. I feel like the optimal number of three syllable words in a sentence is two or three. When it gets to nine even a word nerd like me is out to sea.

[Isobel Mohr · Rating 1 out of 5]

Despite the whacky title, the explicit focus on logic was beyond limited.