Citation

Weir A. Hypatia 2008; 23(4): 110-133.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01436.x

PMID

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Abstract

In this paper, Weir reconsiders identity politics and their relation to feminist solidarity. She argues that the dimension of identity as “identification-with” has been the liberatory dimension of identity politics, and that this dimension has been overshadowed and displaced by a focus on identity as category. Weir addresses critiques of identification as a ground of solidarity, and sketches a model of identity and identity politics based not in sameness, but in transformative historical process.