From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects
, by Moscovici, ClaudiaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415918107 | 0415918103
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/1/1996
From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjectstraces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. In her work, Moscovici brings together the wide-ranging discussion of subjectivity with debates about public discourse. In so doing she attempts a synthesis between the two discussions that have recently engaged feminist theorists and others.