Name: Willful Subjects
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Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9780822357834

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Ahmed

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780822357834

Synopsis "Willful Subjects "

In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.

Sara Ahmed

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Sara Ahmed (nacida en 1969) es una académica y escritora británico-australiana, experta en feminismo, teoría queer, teoría poscolonial y teoría del afecto, conocida por su concepto de "feminista aguafiestas", que denuncia la discriminación en instituciones, y por renunciar a su puesto en la Universidad de Goldsmiths en protesta por el acoso sexual, siendo una figura clave en el análisis de la felicidad, la queja y la identidad a través de lentes críticos.

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