Subjectivity, Gender and the Struggle for Recognition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Paddy McQueen

   Pages 1-17

3. The Politics of Recognition

   • Paddy McQueen

   Pages 18-40

4. The Importance of Hegelian Recognition

   • Paddy McQueen

   Pages 41-65

5. Situating the Subject: Identity, Power and Recognition

   • Paddy McQueen

   Pages 66-96

6. ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ Feminist Theory and the Politics of Recognition

   • Paddy McQueen

   Pages 97-124

7. Recognising Transgender Identities: Narratives and Politics of the Gendered Self

   • Paddy McQueen

   Pages 125-156

8. Recognition, Queer Politics and a Liveable Life

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   Pages 157-187

9. Back Matter

   Pages 188-219

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In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and power relations, and considers how feminism can best respond to these issues.

• European philosophy
• feminism
• Foucault
• gender
• Honneth
• identity
• post-structuralism
• power
• queer theory
• recognition
• subjectivity
• conflict
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• Queen’s University Belfast, UK

  Paddy McQueen

Paddy McQueen is a Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast, where he also obtained his PhD. His primary research explores issues of subjectivity, gender, agency and power in philosophy and political theory. He is the co-author of Key Concepts in Philosophy (Palgrave, 2010).

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