Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (Thinking Gender)

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. (Source: [Routledge](https://www.routledge.com/Sacrificial-Logics-Feminist-Theory-and-the-Critique-of-Identity/Weir/p/book/9780415908634)) Dedication Contents Preface Introduction 1 Self-Identity as Domination: The Misrecognition of Hegel in de Beauvoir, Derrida, and Jessica Benjamin 2 Separation as Domination: Nancy Chodorow and the Relational Feminist Critique of Autonomy 3 The Paradox of the Self: Jessica Benjamin’s Intersubjective Theory 4 The Subversion of Identity: Luce Irigaray and the Critique of Phallogocentrism 5 From the Subversion of Identity to the Subversion of Solidarity? Judith Butler and the Critique of Women’s Identity 6 ‘Resistance M ust Finally Be Articulated in a Voice Which Can Be Heard’: Jacqueline Rose and the Paradox of Identity 7 Toward a Theory of Self and Social Identity: Julia Kristeva Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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.

With her analysis, in The Second Sex, of the social, historical, cultural, and psychological construction of Woman as Other, Simone de Beauvoir provides one of the most important foundations of contemporary feminist theory. Sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of non-identity or difference. The book discusses the work of Butler, Irigaray and Kristeva, amongst other feminists. Allison Weir. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 204-209) And Index.