Sacrificial Logics

Thinking Gender

by Allison Weir

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.

Genres: Feminism

228 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 1995

Reviews

[Jennavier]

I don't normally feel stupid, but when I do it's because I read books like this. I feel like the optimal number of three syllable words in a sentence is two or three. When it gets to nine even a word nerd like me is out to sea.

[Isobel Mohr]

Despite the whacky title, the explicit focus on logic was beyond limited.