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Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism - Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (Hardcover)
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Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism - Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (Hardcover)
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How do we become political subjects? Put another way, how do we
become actors who have the power to instigate political change?
These are questions that have long vexed political theorists,
particularly feminist and critical race scholars who think about
how to achieve real political transformation. According to
postmodern scholars, subjects are defined only through their
relationship to institutions and social norms. But if we are only
political people insofar as we are subjects of existing power
relations, there is little hope of political transformation. To
instigate change, we need to draw on collective power, but
appealing to a particular type of subject, whether "working class,"
"black," or "women," will always be exclusionary. This issue is a
particular problem for feminist scholars, who are frequently
criticized for assuming that they can make broad claims for all
women, while failing to acknowledge their own exclusive and
powerful position (mostly white, Western, and bourgeois). Recent
work in political and feminist thought has suggested that we can
get around these paradoxes by wishing away the idea of political
subjects entirely or else thinking of political identities as
constantly shifting. In this book, Claudia Leeb argues that these
are both failed ideas. She instead suggests a novel idea of a
subject "in outline". As such, we are coherent political subjects,
but we are always open, or in outline. It is this openness that
both underscores the exclusionary character of political
subjectivity and allows us to counter it. Leeb also argues that
power structures that create political subjects are never
all-powerful. While she rejects the idea of political autonomy, she
shows that there is always a moment in which subjects can contest
the power relations that define them. Over the course of the book
Leeb grounds this concept of the subject in outline in work by
Adorno, Lacan, and Marx - the very theorists who are often seen as
denying the agency of the subject. Specifically, she takes a
critical look at the way that Judith Butler treats the political
subjectivity of women and the ways in which Marx and Adorno treat
the liberation of working class women.
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