Book Review: Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory

Abstract

It intertwines three ideas about the relationship between critical theory and political practice: first, it valorizes historically specific, conjunctural struggles as the agenda setters for critical theory; second, it posits social movements as the subjects of critique; and third, it implies that it is in the crucible of political practice that critical theories meet the ultimate test of viability. (2) Foucualt's themes in essays.