Solidarity of Strangers Feminism after Identity Politics [Paperback]

Solidarity of Strangersis a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy. Arguing for a solidarity rooted in a respect for difference, Dean offers a broad vision of the shape of postmodern democracies that moves beyond the limitations and dangers of identity politics.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Jodi Deanis Professor of Political Science at Hobart-William Smith Colleges. She is on the editorial boards of Constellations and Philosophy and Social Criticism, and is the editor of Resisting the Political: Feminism and the New Democracy.

"Anyone concerned by the swirling academic and political debates over identity politics, multiculturalism, and what could bring us together in divisive times should read Jodi Dean's welcome argument for reconstructing a conscious, deliberative solidarity. With insightful engagement with scholars as diverse as Judith Butler, Cornel West, Jürgen Habermas, and Lynet Uttal, Dean models the kind of dialogue she advocates."—Martha Minow, author ofMaking All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law

 

"Solidarity of Strangers is an impressive achievement. Dean works to move political theory beyond the poststructuralist/Habermasian divide as she offers a discourse ethics that accounts for difference and a universalism that does not abandon specificities."—Shane Phelan, author ofGetting Specific: Postmodern Lesbianlˆ