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9780813365558

The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity

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    9780813365558

  • ISBN10:

    0813365554

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-10-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Power is clearly a crucial concept for feminist theory. Insofar as feminists are interested in analyzing power, it is because they have an interest in understanding, critiquing, and ultimately challenging the multiple array of unjust power relations affecting women in contemporary Western societies, including sexism, racism, heterosexism, and class oppression.InThe Power of Feminist Theory,Amy Allen diagnoses the inadequacies of previous feminist conceptions of power, and draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists of power, including Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Hannah Arendt, in order to construct a new feminist conception of power. The conception of power developed in this book enables readers to theorize domination, resistance, and solidarity, and, perhaps more importantly, to do so in a way that illuminates the interrelatedness of these three modalities of power.

Author Biography

Amy Allen is assistant professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College. Her articles have appeared in Hypatia, Constellations, and the Journal of Value Inquiry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(6)
Feminist Conceptions of Power: A Critical Assessment
7(24)
Power as Resource
8(3)
Power as Domination
11(7)
Power as Empowerment
18(6)
Conclusion
24(7)
The Genealogy of Power: Michel Foucault
31(34)
Foucault's Conception of Power
33(4)
A Theory for Women?
37(11)
A Theory for Feminists
48(5)
Limits to the Collaboration: Resistance, Agency, and Solidarity
53(3)
Conclusion
56(9)
Power Trouble: Judith Butler's Feminist Genealogy of Power
65(22)
Performativity: Take One
66(5)
Performativity: Take Two
71(4)
Limitations to Performativity
75(6)
Conclusion
81(6)
The Power of Solidarity: Hannah Arendt
87(32)
Foucault, Butler, and Arendt: An Unlikely Alliance
88(10)
Arendt's Conception of Power
98(5)
Beyond Sisterhood: Rethinking Solidarity
103(7)
A Limitation to Arendt's Conception of Power
110(9)
A Feminist Conception of Power
119(20)
Defining Power
121(8)
Methodological Considerations
129(10)
Bibliography 139(8)
Index 147

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