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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Who put the "Me" in feminism? The Sexual Politics of Narcissism.
AU - Tyler, I.
N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Sociology
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - This article examines what is at stake in the attribution of narcissism to femininity and feminism and the routes through which arguments about ‘feminist narcissism’ became central to the popular abjection of feminism. It emphasizes the central role of narcissistic theories of identity in enabling feminist theory to prise open the mechanisms of feminine identity and thereby expose and critique the sexual politics of identity practices. The article argues that theorizing the politics of narcissism opens up ways of thinking through some of the pressing and complex questions which face women today, questions of self-identity, self-esteem, body image, cultural idealization, normativity, incorporation, consumption and agency.
AB - This article examines what is at stake in the attribution of narcissism to femininity and feminism and the routes through which arguments about ‘feminist narcissism’ became central to the popular abjection of feminism. It emphasizes the central role of narcissistic theories of identity in enabling feminist theory to prise open the mechanisms of feminine identity and thereby expose and critique the sexual politics of identity practices. The article argues that theorizing the politics of narcissism opens up ways of thinking through some of the pressing and complex questions which face women today, questions of self-identity, self-esteem, body image, cultural idealization, normativity, incorporation, consumption and agency.
KW - Freud • narcissism • self-esteem • psychoanalysis • Women’s Liberation Movement • body image
U2 - 10.1177/1464700105050225
DO - 10.1177/1464700105050225
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 25
EP - 44
JO - Feminist Theory
JF - Feminist Theory
SN - 1741-2773
IS - 1
ER -