Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415073561)

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for feminisms with attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism, from identity debates' to Foucault's care of the self'.

Author: Elspeth Probyn
ISBN-10: 0415073561
ISBN-13: 9780415073561
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/08/1993
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.14w x 0.66d