Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... Women in Culture and Society 13 , no . 3 ( 1988 ) : 405-36 . by permission of the University of Chicago Press . Sally Alexander , " Women , Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s : Some Reflections on the Writing of a ...
... women , parents and chil- dren , teachers and students , doctors and patients , priests and penitents , can no longer be regarded simply as performing functionally defined " roles . " Rather , these terms define relations in which the ...
... woman . Those assumptions were ordered into a pervasive dualism that aligned men with the world of work and the public domain of politics , and women with the home and the private realm of domesticity , the one a site of control and ...
... women " among tribe x , or in the xth century ) , not only radically reoriented the study of women and gender , but also re- aligned the political / intellectual matrix in which the gender problematic was situated it became apparent ...
... women and their interests from the political groupings and their agendas , but also a codifica- tion of categorical assumptions about women's and men's " natures " and " places . " The effects of all this have been not only to demystify ...
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