How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques
of identity and identity politics? In Identities and Freedom,
Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective
identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault,
Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young, and others, Weir develops
a complex and nuanced account of identities that takes seriously
the ways in which identity categories are bound up with power
relations, with processes of subjection and exclusion, yet argues
that identities are also sources of important values, and of
freedom, for they are shaped and sustained by relations of
interdependence and solidarity. Moving out of the paradox of
identity and freedom requires understanding identities as effects
of multiple contesting relations of power and relations of
interdependence. "This is a terrific book, one that stakes out an
original and distinctive position in some well-worn debates, and
that brings together diverse bodies of theory in an insightful and
productive way. It is a real gem. It offers substantial new
insights into how feminist theorists can go on in the wake of the
relentless critique of the notion of identity. The book will make a
significant contribution to ongoing debates in feminist theory over
the vexed question of identity - a question that is absolutely
central to feminist theory, and has been so for at least the last
twenty years." - Amy Allen, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth
College "This book makes great contributions to the feminist
literature by reconceptualizing IDENTITY in terms of connectedness
and FREEDOM in terms of practices of belonging. Through a
fascinating and innovative synthesis of Michel Foucault and Charles
Taylor, Weir's communitarian approach develops new arguments for
the need to cultivate resistant identities and resistant
communities. This impressive book is full of original ideas
masterfully articulated in critical engagements with leading
feminist scholars such as Saba Mahmood, Cynthia Willett, Iris
Young, and Linda Zerilli. This provocative book is a must read for
anyone interested in contemporary discussions of freedom,
resistance, identity, and community." - Jose Medina, Department of
Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
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