The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’

Abstract

This chapter began life at the ‘Agency and Coercion’ workshop held by the Gender Institute at LSE in May 2010, where Amal responded to Clare’s paper on differing feminist histories of agency. Amal used the opportunity to introduce questions of affect and accountability into the debate, and we are delighted to have been given the opportunity to take our conversation forward here.