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Constituting Feminist Subjects.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  March, 2001  by Curtis, Kimberley

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Constituting Feminist Subjects. By Kathi Weeks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 196p. $39.95 cloth, $13.95 paper.

Feminist theorists have struggled to develop accounts of women's oppression that are historically specific enough to capture the variability in forms of male domination but do not neglect possible transhistorical and transcultural features. A related challenge has been to theorize a feminist subjectivity that can anchor an oppositional politics but avoid an overly unified notion of feminist subjectivity, while nevertheless attending to the patterned effects ...

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