Unruly practices : power, discourse, and gender in contemporary social theory / Nancy Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Radicalism.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the heretofore divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism to form a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Apologia for Academic Radicals; Part 1 Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation; Chapter 1 Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions; Chapter 2 Michel Foucault: A ""Young Conservative""?; Chapter 3 Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric?; Part 2 On the Political and the Symbolic; Chapter 4 The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?; Chapter 5 Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy

Part 3 Gender and the Politics of Need Interpretation; Chapter 6 What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender; Chapter 7 Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation; Chapter 8 Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-8316-6

OCLC:

171126522