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Identity Before Identity Politics

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  • Date Published: November 2008
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521680486

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  • In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's engaging book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This insightful study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history.

    • Recognizes important differences in the history of the politics around gender and the history of the politics around race
    • Examines the history of the general ideas about social identity that influenced the common history of these politics
    • Includes comprehensive histories of the struggles of African Americans and women in the United States over the last few centuries
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    • Date Published: November 2008
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521680486
    • length: 202 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 153 x 13 mm
    • weight: 0.34kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. The politics of identity: race and sex before the twentieth century
    2. Freud and the rise of the psychological self
    3. The culture concept and social identity
    4. Before Black Power: constructing an African American identity
    5. Women's identity/women's politics
    Epilogue. Identity politics forty years later: assessing their value.

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    Linda Nicholson, Washington University, St Louis
    Linda Nicholson is Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

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