Identity without selfhood : Simone de Beauvoir and bisexuality / Mariam Fraser.

By:

Fraser, Mariam

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge cultural social studiesPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 215 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511005644
9780511005640
0511035373
9780511035371
9780521623575
052162357X
9780521625791
0521625793
0511150377
9780511150371
9780511583414
0511583419
1280418915
9781280418914
0511172257
9780511172250
0511310129
9780511310126
0511050615
9780511050619
1107115019
9781107115019

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Identity without selfhood.DDC classification:

306.76/6 21

LOC classification:

HQ74 .F73 1999eb

Other classification:

71.25

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Introduction -- Identity and selfhood -- Identity and embodiment -- Telling tales -- Preculsion -- Displacement -- Erasure -- Lose your face -- Conclusion.

Summary: Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self-realisation and narrative. In a detailed study of biographical, media and academic representations of Simone de Beauvoir, Dr Fraser illustrates that bisexuality, by contrast, is discursively produced as an identity which exceeds the confines of the self and especially the individuality ascribed to de Beauvoir. In the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the self, the argument presented in the book also offers a critique of Foucault's work from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Introduction -- Identity and selfhood -- Identity and embodiment -- Telling tales -- Preculsion -- Displacement -- Erasure -- Lose your face -- Conclusion.

Print version record.

Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self-realisation and narrative. In a detailed study of biographical, media and academic representations of Simone de Beauvoir, Dr Fraser illustrates that bisexuality, by contrast, is discursively produced as an identity which exceeds the confines of the self and especially the individuality ascribed to de Beauvoir. In the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the self, the argument presented in the book also offers a critique of Foucault's work from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective.

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.