Constituting "the subject" in poststructuralist discourse.
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Bronwyn Davies, Jenny Browne, Susanne Gannon, Lekkie Hopkins, Helen McCann, Monne Wihlborg |
| Title: | Constituting "the subject" in poststructuralist discourse. |
| Journal: | Feminism & Psychology |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pagination: | 87-103 |
| ISSN: | 0959-3535 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Journals |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Management (Sektionen för management) School of Management S- 371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/mam/ |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In this article, we describe a collective biography that we convened in order to revisit the site of the radical theoretical break with the liberal humanist individual marked by the poststructuralist work of Henriques and colleagues and the feminist poststructuralist work of Weedon. These writers suggest that the new subject of poststructuralist theory will be more open to the changes desired by feminist and social justice movements. They describe the break with the liberal humanist subject as a break that heralds new possibilities of personal and cultural transformation. In this article, using the medium of collective biography stories, we revisit the relation between the liberal humanist individual and the transformative possibilities poststructuralist writers envisaged for the new subject of poststructuralism. We situate the discussion in the context of our transformation into neoliberal subjects over the last three decades. |
| Subject: | Psychology\General The Humanities\Comparative Literature |
