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Anti-Anti-Identity Politics: Feminism, Democracy, and the Complexities of Citizenship

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Susan Bickford
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Abstract

In this essay, I argue that recent leftist aitiasms of “identity politics” do not address problems of inequality and interaction that are central in thinking about contemporary democratic politics. I turn instead to a set of feminist thinkers who share these critics’ vision of politics, but who critically mobilize identity in a way that provides a conception of democratic citizenship for our inegalitarian and diverse polity.

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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale , Fall 1997 , pp. 111 - 131
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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