Power and Feminist Agency manages to be simultaneously clear, comprehensive, and complex Leeb develops a new and more meaningful analysis that privileges a comparative anatomy of theoretical logics over and against a succession narrative. This is an analytical hierarchy worth endorsing Power and Feminist Agency stands on its own as a dazzling demonstration of dialectical reading that makes these questions
... Read morewhat is capital? whither the feminist subject?
both inextricable and newly urgent.
Christopher Chamberlin, Hypatia
a great and important book ... Leeb's notion of the subject-in-outline is a superb way to think about the subject and about the ways that she both is and is not constituted. One of her main arguments is that feminist theory has turned its back on psychoanalytical theory (especially the Lacanian variant) at its peril. Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism is certainly evidence that the turn to psychoanalysis is capable of producing remarkable clarity when it comes to questions of what underlies and constructs the actors in political life, as well as the unseen forces that connect and complicate their actions.
Perspectives on Politics
Claudia Leeb's Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism is an original contribution to the fields of feminist, political, and critical theory. Bringing together diverse thinkers with the political urgency to challenge capitalist exploitation, particularly of working-class women, Leeb offers an argument for a novel view of political agency that she names 'the political subject-in-outline.'
Laurie E. Naranch, Siena College, Politics & Gender
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