Unruly Practices Power Discourse And Gender In Contemporary Social Theory

Unruly Practices

Unruly Practices

Unruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together, they constitute a critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a socialist-feminist critical theory that aims to overcome many of the limitations of current alternatives. First, in a series of critical essays, she deploys philosophical and literary techniques to sort the wheat from the chaff in the work of Michael Foucault, the French deconstructionists, Richard Rorty and Jurgen Habermas. In a group of constructive essays, she incorporates their respective strengths in a critical theory of late-capitalist political culture.

Unruly Practices

Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the heretofore divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism to form a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture.