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The book organizes its argument across three parts, linking debates about modern power, norms, and contestation; the political and the symbolic; and gender with the politics of need interpretation. Chapters address figures and traditions such as Foucault, Derridean deconstruction, Habermas, and welfare-state conflicts, grounding analysis in critical social-theoretical discussion.","Unruly Practices:Power,Discourse,andGender inContemporarySocial Theory  \nNancy Fraser  \nCopyright ◎1989 by the Regents of the University of MinnesotaAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior written permission of the publisher.  \nPublished by the University of Minnesota Press111 Third Avenue South,Suite 290,Minneapolis,MN 55401-2520http://www.upress.umn.edu  \nChapter 2 appeared in Ethics,vol.96,no.1(October 1985),◎ TheUniversity of Chicago Press.Reprinted with permission.  \nAn earlier version of Chapter 8 appeared as \"Talking about Needs:Interpretive Contests and Political Conflicts in Welfare-State Societies\"in Ethics,vol.99,no.2(January 1989),◎The University of ChicagoPress.Portions of that version are reprinted here with permission.  \nThe remaining chapters were oiginally published as follows:  \nChap.1 Praxis International,vol.1,no.3(October 1981)272-87;  \nChap.3 Salmagundi,no.61(Fall 1983)55-70;  \nChap.4 New German Critique,no.33(Fall 1984)127-54;  \nChap.5:Praxis International,vol.8,no.3(October 1988)257-72;  \nChap.6:New German Critique,no35(Spring/Summer 1985)97-131;  \nChap.7:Hypatia:A Journal of Feminist Philosophy,vol.2,no.1  \n(Winter 1987)103-21.  \nFourth printing 1998  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nFraser,Nancy.  \nUnruly practices :power,discourse,and gender in contemporarysocial theory /Nancy Fraser.  \np.   cm.  \nIncludes index.  \nISBN 0-8166-1777-5  \nISBN 0-8166-1778-3(pbk.)  \n1.Sociology-Philosophy.2.Radicalism.3.Feminism.  \nI.Title.  \nHM24.F732   1989  \n89-32093  \n301'.01—dc20  \nCIP  \nThe University of Minnesota  \nis an equal-opportunity  \neducator and employer.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments  \nvii  \nIntroduction Apologia for Academic Radicals  \n1  \nPart 1Powers,Norms,and Vocabularies of Contestation  \nChapter 1Foucault on Modern Power:Empirical Insights andNormative Confusions  \n17  \nChapter 2Michel Foucault:A\"Young Conservative'?35  \nChapter 3Foucault's Body Language:A Posthumanist PoliticalRhetoric?  \n55  \nPart 2On the Political and the Symbolic  \nChapter 4The French Derrideans:Politicizing Deconstruction orDeconstructing the Political?  \n69  \nChapter 5Solidarity or Singularity?Richard Rorty betweenRomanticism and Technocracy93  \nPart 3Gender and the Politics of Need Interpretation  \nChapter 6What's Critical about Critical Theory?The Case ofHabermas and Gender113  \nChapter 7Women,Welfare,and the Politics of Need Interpretation 144  \nChapter 8Struggle over Needs:Outline of a Socialist-FeministCritical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture  \n161  \n# Acknowledgments\n\nI feel very fortunate to have enjoyed many forms and sources of support duringthe long and often difficult process of working on this book.It is a pleasure toacknowledge them here.  \nI received generous financial support from four institutions.The University ofGeorgia Research Foundation funded a research trip to France in 1982;withoutthis support,I could not have written Chapter 4 of this book.The Stanford Hu-manities Center provided a Mellon Fellowship in 1984-85,giving me the greatgift of a year away from the ordinary cares of academic life.I am grateful to IanWatt and to Mort Sosna for creating a congenial and stimulating environment inwhich my interdisciplinary interests flourished.The Mary Ingraham Bunting In-stitute of Radcliffe College awarded me a Bunting Fellowship in 1987-88,an-other precious gift of time and space in which to think and write.I am especiallypleased to thank Ann Bookman and Elizabeth McKinsey for their work in sus-taining this unique institution,a research and study center for women.Finally,Northwestern University gave me supplementary financial support during bothfellowship years,a quarter of paid leave in 1983,and the occasional odd coursereduction when the going got tough.I am grateful to former Dean of Arts andSciences Rudolp","cbCaisLJiGum4GBw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisLJiGum4GBw","pdf",10942486,12,1,106,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Apologia for Academic Radicals\n# Part 1: Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation\n## Chapter 1 Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions\n## Chapter 2 Michel Foucault: A \"Young Conservative\"?\n## Chapter 3 Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric?\n# Part 2: On the Political and the Symbolic\n## Chapter 4 The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?\n## Chapter 5 Solidarity or Singularity? 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