The Politics of Our Selves : : Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory / / Amy Allen.
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompa...
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