ABSTRACT
As Maxine Greene and A.S. Byatt imply in their written words, a deep confusion reigns over the meaning of terms such as “freedom” “identity,” and “self ” in contemporary life. There is also subtle implication in such words that much of what we come to understand as meaningful within the realm of the “political” takes on forms that either become objectionable to some members of society or relate to one’s direct personal experience. As many scholars suggest, such
disaffection occurs largely because social forces reconfigure our understandings and experiences of the political and what it ultimately means to “possess” an identity in the contemporary state (e.g., Robinson 1998). Arguably, gender politics, as a political formation, is one such example of this phenomenon.
