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Global Feminism and Transformative Identity Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Allison Weir
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In this paper, Weir reconsiders identity politics and their relation to feminist solidarity. She argues that the dimension of identity as “identification-with” has been the liberatory dimension of identity politics, and that this dimension has been overshadowed and displaced by a focus on identity as category. Weir addresses critiques of identification as a ground of solidarity, and sketches a model of identity and identity politics based not in sameness, but in transformative historical process.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 110 - 133
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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