ABSTRACT
Allison Weir sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of nonidentity, difference, and connection to others, defined as a capacity to participate in a social world. Weir argues that the equation of identity with repression and domination links "relational feminists" like Nancy Chodorow, who equate self-identity with the repression of connection to others, and poststructuralist feminists like Judith Butler, who view any identity as a repression of nonidentity or difference. Weir traces this conception of identity as domination back to Simone de Beauvoir's theories of the relation of self and other.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
chapter |29 pages
Self-Identity as Domination
The Misrecognition of Hegel in de Beauvoir, Derrida, and Jessica Benjamin
chapter |22 pages
Separation as Domination
Nancy Chodorow and the Relational Feminist Critique of Autonomy
chapter |23 pages
From the Subversion of Identity to the Subversion of Solidarity?
Judith Butler and the Critique of Women's Identity
chapter |10 pages
‘Resistance Must Finally Be Articulated in a Voice Which Can Be Heard'
Jacqueline Rose and the Paradox of Identity