In this extended meditation on the language of the self within contemporary social politics, the author ponders the question: What does it matter what... Læs mere
A brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language.
Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social.
This anniversary reader brings together a fascinating group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship over the past two decades.