Subjectivity, Gender and the Struggle for Recognition

by Paddy McQueen

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Importance of Recognition 3. The Subject in Philosophy and Politics 4. The Philosophy and Politics of Recognition 5. Feminism and the Politics of Gender 6. The Overall Structure and Arguments of the Book PART THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION 7. Defining Recognition 8. Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition 9. Axel Honneth and the Struggle for Recognition 10. The Recognition-Redistribution Debate 11. The Deficit Model of Some Initial Concerns PART THE IMPORTANCE OF HEGELIAN RECOGNITION 12. The Cartesian Subject and Authoritative Self-Knowledge 13. Kant, Fichte and the Turn Toward Recognition 14. Self-Certainty, Freedom and Recognition 15. Interpretating the Master-Slave Inescapable Conflict or Mutual Authorisation? 16. How Other is the Other? Lévinas and the Limtis of Recognition PART SITUATING THE IDENTITY, POWER AND RECOGNITION 17. Hegel and Arendt on Interpreting Identity 18. Becoming as Perpetual Over-Coming? The Nietzschean Critique of the Subject 19. Subject to Power, Identity and Agency 20. Reimagining the Feminist Figurations of the Self PART 'AIN'T I A WOMAN?' FEMINIST THEORY AND THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION 21. Recognition in Consciousness-Raising and Radical Feminisms 22. Breaking the Universalist The Development of a Standpoint 23. Recognition, Experience and Solidarity 24. Rethinking Judith Butler's Politics of the Performative 25. Butler on Recognition and Power PART RECOGNITION TRANSGENDER NARRATIVES AND POLITICS OF THE GENDERED SELF 26. The Meaning and Importance of Transgender Identities 27. Transsexual Controversies 28. Diagnosing Transsexuality 29. Re-Reading Sites of Power, Performativity and Recognition 30. The Recognition and Erasure of Deviant Gender Identities 31. Legal Recognition and the Regulation of Identity PART RECOGNITION, QUEER POLITICS AND A LIVEABLE LIFE 32. The Meaning of a Liveable Life 33. Recognising and Working on Oneself 34. Recognition and the Politics of 'Coming Out' 35. Recognition, Gender and Queer Politics

232 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 2014