Concepts of the Self

Abstract

* Contents * Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Arts of Self * Concepts of the Self * How the Self is Constructed and Changed * The Structure of the Book *1 Self, Society and Everyday Life * Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism * Presentations of Self: Goffman * Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens *2 The Repression of Self * Psychoanalysis and the Self * Culture and Repression *3 Technologies of the Self * Technologies of the Self: Foucault * Governmentalities: New Technologies, New Selves *4 Self, Sexuality and Gender * Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views * The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler * Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender *5 The Postmodern Self * All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? * Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern * Conclusion * Inner Depth, or Inside Out * Identity Politics, or Critique of Self * Index