"Micro-Politics "was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of social
transformation resulting from an "unmooring" of women, men, and
children from the nuclear family, gender relations having replaced
economic relations as the primary site of social tension and change
in our lives. The feminist movement has evolved, according to Mann,
into a popularly based postfeminist struggle to reconstruct
relationships between women and men within everyday contexts of
work, family, education, and politics. Mann formulates a
"postmodern" theory of political agency, utilizing it to explain
political events such as the Hill-Thomas Senate hearings and their
social aftermath. While liberal and progressive theories have
explained political agency in terms of individual or group forms of
identity, Mann suggests another alternative. Individuals such as
Anita Hill are drawn into socially meaningful struggles in the
context of their daily lives-as we all are potentially
participating in micro-political forms of activism in a variety of
institutional contexts. These dynamic micropolitical situations
involve intersecting dimensions of race, class, and sexuality, as
well as gender. Within specific conflicts, individuals rearticulate
their notions of desire and responsibility, and their expectations
for recognition and reward; according to Mann political agency
resides in these choices. Addressing some of the most important
controversies in political philosophy, Mann weaves together strands
of the "participatory politics" of the 1960s and the multicultural
politics of the 1990s. In doing so, she offers a new basis for
understanding social change.
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