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"In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket

Women, morality, and history -- Feminism and Marx: integrating kinship with the economic -- Feminist theory: the private and the public -- Interpreting "Gender" -- The myth of the traditional family -- Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism with Nancy Fraser -- Bringing it all back home: reason in the twilight of foundationalism -- To be or not to be: Charles Taylor and the politics of recognition -- Emotion in postmodern public spaces

This essay is a response to comments made by Shane Fhelan, Cheshire Calhoun, and Naomi Scheman on my bookThe Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern(1999). I reiterate my belief that we best approach the issue of consensus and dissension in second' Order justifications of social and political claims not philosophically but sociologically, politically, historically. I suggest similar approaches for dealing with the question of meaning. This mow signals an endorsement not of indifference but rather of commitment and humility.