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.In The 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.
The Power of Feminist Theory (Feminist Theory and Politics) - Domination, Resistance, Solidarity
Amy Allen
Westview Press
2000
160 páginas
5h 20m
ISBN-10: 0813365554
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Amy Allen
Professora de filosofia na Universidade Penn State, nos Estados Unidos. Autora de livros como The Power of Feminist Theory (1999) e The Politics of Ourselves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (2008). Sua pesquisa examina a relação entre poder e autonomia na constituição do sujeito e tenta ampliar as compreensões feministas tradicionais de poder para aplicá-la às questões transnacionais.
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