Rethinking feminist political subjectivity with deconstruction and negative dialectics

Claudia Leeb

Chapter 20 in Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, 2024, pp 413-435 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: How can a feminist subject that emerges in the moment of subjection to power discourses be in a position to generate transformative politics? How can we theorize a feminist political subject without such subject becoming exclusionary? This chapter draws on the combinatory theoretical framework of Jacques Derrida and Theodor W. Adorno to propose an alternative theoretical framework that finds answers to these divisive questions in feminist political theory. First, it shows that the feminist political subject emerges within the limit of power when power fails to fully determine subjectivity. Second, it further theorizes the concept of a feminist political subject-in-outline, which defines the feminist political subject without becoming exclusionary.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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