Description: Beyond Identity Politics engages with key contemporary issues such as difference, identity and subjectivity, and their relation to power and politics.
Moya Lloyd explores feminist conceptions of power, patriachy, agency, critique and the political relating to subjectivity, engaging critically with the writing of some of the major feminist thinkers of the 1990′s up to the present day, including Jucith Butler, Chantal Mouffe, Donna Haraway and Seyla Benhabib.
Brief description: Dr Moya Lloyd BA, PhD (Warwick) Research Interests: Contemporary political theory, particularly feminist theory and democratic theory. Courses taught 2004-2005: Political Theory and gender
Review Quotes: "Lloyd begins by addressing the complex, dynamic, unstable, and messy relationship between subject constitution and politics. She focuses on the space between essentialism and antiessentialism to examine what feminist politics looks like from the perspective of fluid and open identities. Rather than leading to the demise of feminist politics, this approach, she argues, gives ideas about power, domination, agency, and resistance a more powerful ability to critique."--C. Shrewsbury "CHOICE" (2/1/2006 12:00:00 AM)