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Lois McNay
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 38
Citations - 3416
Lois McNay is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Oppression & Politics. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications receiving 3283 citations. Previous affiliations of Lois McNay include Universities UK & University of Cambridge.
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Gender, Habitus and the Field: Pierre Bourdieu and the Limits of Reflexivity
TL;DR: The authors argue that the failure of certain theories of reflexive identity transformation to consider more fully issues connected to gender identity leads to an overemphasis on the expressive part of identity transformation.
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Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory
TL;DR: The body, position, power: Bourdieu and Butler on agency as discussed by the authors, Ricoeur on the coherence of self, and Castoriadis and the Creativity of Action.
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Foucault: A Critical Introduction
TL;DR: In this article, the subject of knowledge is defined as a "subject of knowledge" and from discipline to government, from Repression to Transgression, from Discipline to Government 4. Aesthetics as Ethics.
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Self as Enterprise Dilemmas of Control and Resistance in Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider Foucault's analysis of ordoliberal and neoliberal governmental reason and its reorganization of social relations around a notion of enterprise, and argue that the generalization of the enterprise form to social relations was conceptualized in such exhaustive terms that it encompassed subjectivity itself.