Micro-Politics: Agency In A Postfeminist Era

Features of Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era

Product Description MicroPolitics was first published in 1994 Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make longunavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editionsPatricia S Mann explains our current period as a time of social transformation resulting from an unmooring of women men and children from the nuclear family gender relations having replaced economic relations as the primary site of social tension and change in our lives The feminist movement has evolved according to Mann into a popularly based postfeminist struggle to reconstruct relationships between women and men within everyday contexts of work family education and politics Mann formulates a postmodern theory of political agency utilizing it to explain political events such as the HillThomas Senate hearings and their social aftermath While liberal and progressive theories have explained political agency in terms of individual or group forms of identity Mann suggests another alternative Individuals such as Anita Hill are drawn into socially meaningful struggles in the context of their daily livesas we all are potentially participating in micropolitical forms of activism in a variety of institutional contexts These dynamic micropolitical situations involve intersecting dimensions of race class and sexuality as well as gender Within specific conflicts individuals rearticulate their notions of desire and responsibility and their expectations for recognition and reward according to Mann political agency resides in these choices Addressing some of the most important controversies in political philosophy Mann weaves together strands of the participatory politics of the 1960s and the multicultural politics of the 1990s In doing so she offers a new basis for understanding social change From the Back Cover Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make longunavailable books once again accessible to scholars students researchers and general readers Rich with historical and cultural value these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners About the Author Patricia Mann is an Associate at Cyrus D Mehta Associates a US immigration and nationality law firm in New York City She has published many articles on contemporary social and political issues