Loyalty to white civilization.

Title: Loyalty to white civilization.
Identifier: AAI9521311
identifier: 9521311
Creator: Saunders, Kriemild.
Contributor: Supervisor: Stanley Aronowitz
Date: 1995
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Philosophy | Anthropology, Cultural | Women's Studies
Abstract: The concept of Sovereign Subjectivity that has developed within post-structuralist thought, has been limited to the general concept of sovereignty of consciousness linked to the philosophical anthropology of man, largely within philosophy. This dissertation extends the concept of sovereignty to include hierarchal relations of power and authority implicit in the idea of the will, including its possessive attributes, in an examination of discursive texts that articulate sovereign revolutionary subjectivity in a particular and close reading of Adrienne Rich's "Disloyalty to Civilization: Feminism, Racism, Gynephobia", "the domestic labour debates"--a theoretical discourse situated mainly in the 1970's; and sovereign subjectivity in the 'non-discursive' text of the life-activities of Jeffery Dahmer's serial murders and necrophilia. It is the presentation of hierarchal social relations (gender, race, class, sexuality etc.) linked to power and domination, unveiling, illumination, linearity and substantial presence, that marks these texts as loyal to white civilization.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.