States of Injury
Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection. Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands, writes Brown, the heavy price of instituti…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-20139-9
- EAN: 9780691201399
- Produktnummer: 33759964
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 219 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Wendy Brown
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