Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self

by Linda Martín Alcoff

Book Overview

In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Mart n Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195137345
• ISBN13: 9780195137347
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 6.4"